A camera developed for both lefties and righties.
1954 Mamiya Speed Shot Special
Wired ran a story about a 1954 Mamiya Speed Shot Special, otherwise known as the Mamiya Pistol Camera. With estimates running between 250-300 being made for police training purposes, one was sold at Christies in 1993 for $16,500.
Tu-144
Lunar Exploration Suit 1960
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Generating Unit, Magneto Compass, Earth Inductor, Wiley Post Crash
Wiley Post and Russell S. Colley, B.F. Goodrich engineer, testing the Post designed high altitude pressure suite in 1934.
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Trautonium
The trautonium is a monophonic electronic musical instrument invented about 1929 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule’s music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle. Soon Oskar Sala joined him, continuing development until Sala’s death in 2002. Instead of a keyboard, its manual is made of a resistor wire over a metal plate which is pressed to create a sound. Expressive playing was possible with this wire by gliding on it, creating vibrato with small movements. Volume was controlled by the pressure of the finger on the wire and board. The first Trautoniums were marketed by Telefunken from 1933-35 (200 were made).
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The Robert Fripp Slim Signature guitar
Needs more buttons & knobs.
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