Figure 1. It is a mistake to think that radio is only good for the distribution of intelligence. As the illustration shows, the great uses of radio have not been touched upon as yet.
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What We Are Coming To, 1895
Metropolis Composite
Here’s a little wallpaper composite I threw together a few years ago with various scenes from the Fritz Land sci-fi classic Metropolis
Underground Cities, 1934
SAFE from bomb attacks, free from disease and changing temperatures, living in cities a mile beneath the surface of the earth, such is the dream of science for the man of the future, a not impractical dream which may doom the towers of Manhattan and every other large city to destruction… (Modern Mechanix, July, 1934)
Cave Cities of Tomorrow, 1934
Making Metropolis, 1926
Various imagery and sketches showing how Fritz Lang’s Metropolis came into being.
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Future NYC, as envisioned in 1910
Future New York, the City of Skyscrapers, Post Card from 1910
The back reads: “Future New York will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure regarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a 10-story structure 129 feet high. There are now over 1,000 buildings of that height in Manhattan. The best known skyscrapers are the Singer Building, the Metropolitan Building and the Woolworth Tower, which towers above them all and rises to a height of 790 feet. The proposed Pan American Building is to be 801 feet high.”
