The George Bennie Railplane system of transport: http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=1341Skip the film to about halfway through to instagrok the fabulousness.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)
I kept expecting Buster Crabbe to step out of that thing.
― "Did you see the sign on my car park that said 'Dead King Storage'?" (snoball), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:55 (twelve years ago)
http://www.futuramics.info/cutenews/data/upimages/futurama_professor_finglonger.jpg
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:02 (twelve years ago)
a futurama-esque one: keeping heads alive, in jars or not, was not really pursued http://www.impactlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/experiment1940-2.jpg
― Sébastien, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:10 (twelve years ago)
And just like that, we have to end the thread. Good night everybody!
― pplains, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:31 (twelve years ago)
blimps, obviously
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:33 (twelve years ago)
What criteria are we using for "never made it" here?
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:35 (twelve years ago)
http://www.alteich.com/tidbits/blimp.jpg
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)
they're more a novelty than the dominant form of air travel they could have been
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:38 (twelve years ago)
I was thinking more 'disappeared without trace' than 'failed to live up to expectations', but whatever. Blimps are cool.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:39 (twelve years ago)
Tesla to thread
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)
Pretty sure that the all-acoustic rock cover lives on.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:46 (twelve years ago)
xp ??? It was the dominant form of air travel, right up until the moment heavier-than-air craft could make the same voyage in less than half the time. That's not "not making it," that's "being rendered obsolete."
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:50 (twelve years ago)
The Caspian Sea Monster (ekranoplan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nu94khHoo
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:54 (twelve years ago)
The Dymaxion carhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLZE23EJKs
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:07 (twelve years ago)
Oh idk why that didn't embed, bah. Click on the link, it is beautiful.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)
How about threads having bolded titles even after receiving new answers I mean huh?
http://i.imgur.com/JDz5MWx.png
― pplains, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:09 (twelve years ago)
You can't call that one yet, I think it will catch on.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:12 (twelve years ago)
The main difficulty with inventions that vanish without a trace is that we shall never have heard of them and threfore cannot share them on this thread, unless we make an effort to go out and find them. But then, where to look?
― Aimless, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:20 (twelve years ago)
Hello Mr. Literal. /wave
OK my bad. There has to be a trace in the historical record. I'm googling variations on 'inventions that didn't make it' and looking at the track record of famous inventors. It is hard though, hence the desire to share.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:24 (twelve years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_House
I think I've been in a partial reconstruction of one of these, at the Design Museum in London, many years ago. They had a pretty big RBF exhibition on, and I remember being very impressed. It's the golden age of science fiction in actual 3D.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:37 (twelve years ago)
the ILX thread that constantly looks like a new thread on SNA
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:49 (twelve years ago)
Hamblin glasses for reading in bed. I expect they were actually a bit annoying, because you'd have to hold the book in a pretty specific place. I'm tempted to try making some anyway.http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/madeinholland16.jpeg
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:50 (twelve years ago)
Yup there is something wrong with it. I'll flag it up to the admins.
Snow motorcycles, like this 1936 BMW Schneekrad.http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrtht0LP9m1qmxq1bo1_500.jpgHow cool is that? Reminds me of those motor sledges Scott used in his South Pole expedition, and it probably worked just as well
― chilli, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:51 (twelve years ago)
Hamblin glasses look great - they're mini-periscopes, yes?
― emil.y, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)
Yes!
chilli, that is p. f. cool.
This is macabre:
http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/madeinholland27.jpg
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:57 (twelve years ago)
bump test
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 21:57 (twelve years ago)
huh
test
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:24 (twelve years ago)
cool!
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:25 (twelve years ago)
Thanks jjj!
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:47 (twelve years ago)
How did that happen?
― pplains, Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:49 (twelve years ago)