If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this one.
On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA: https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595... (can't find if they have Vol I).
There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the technology around them (even though with hindsight, I know that knowledge was extremely superficial).
nbernard 283 days ago [-]
How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA:
these are amazing and beautiful. the singer sewing machine is particularly useful as I use a standing one as a modular synth workstation, but there is a full sewing machine inside it I've never used.
midenginedcoupe 291 days ago [-]
Mercedes World have a Formula 1 car exploded like this. It's fab.
On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA: https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595... (can't find if they have Vol I).
Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured over a book the same way since.
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/039...
https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473
vol 1: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan
vol 2: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAWi1dh8Fs
They're still super cool, but to see every little spring and cog and switch represented by their own monofilament would be pretty neat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May:_The_Reassembler