Business
360-Year-Old Advertisement Extolls Coffee’s Virtues
An advertisement issued by some brilliant London entrepreneurs may well be the first coffee ad ever
Remembering Bloomingdale’s Chairman, the Dearly Departed Martin Traub, 1925-2012
The department store chain's visionary executive beat the competition in exotic fashion flair
Wearing Wool, All Summer Long
Layered, corseted summer garments kept women proper and fashionable, if not cool
1931′s Remote-Controlled Farm of the Future
The farmer of tomorrow wears a suit to work and sits at a desk that looks oddly familiar to those of us here in the year 2012
Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television
Just as people were experimenting with the uses of broadcast TV in the 1930s, so too were they envisioning ways to utilize closed-circuit TV in the 1950s
The 1958 Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Vacation Resort
Give me your huddled masses yearning to go shopping and swimming
The Rise and Fall of Ken-chan, the $43,000 Robot Waiter
The spaghetti-slinging robot drew crowds at Grazie’s Italian Restaurant in Tokyo
Don’t Let Your Money Fly Away: A 1909 Warning to Airship Investors
Flying aboard aircraft? Just a passing fad
Jobs of the Future: How Accurate Were the Soothsayers of 1982 At Predicting Today’s Top Careers?
College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
Billboard Advertising in the City of Blade Runner
Are Angelenos destined to be perpetually surrounded by super-sized advertisements?
Print the News, Right In Your Home!
Decades before the Internet, radio-delivered newspaper machines pioneered the business of electronic publishing.
Too Many Bosses in the Boardroom
Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley knew whose opinion mattered the most: his own
Senator Barry Goldwater Imagines Arizona in the Year 2012
The Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate predicted the growth of the Sun Belt and envisioned an open border with Mexico
Thomas Edison’s Brief Stint As A Homemaker
The famous inventor envisioned a future of inexpensive, prefabricated concrete homes
Today at War, Tomorrow in Stores
Advertisers in the 1940s promised American consumers that they would be rewarded for their wartime sacrifices on the homefront
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