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6th General Election’s support poster for koami!

Interstellar Voyaging – An Evolutionary Transition

Held at Perimeter Institute and webcast live worldwide on Dec 3., 2014, Smith’s lecture explores the biological and cultural challenges associated with multigenerational interstellar space travel.

Hairdryer technology of 1968…..my mum preferred the portable version with the plastic bonnet!

General Electric’s Birth of a Salesman dramatic presentation

(Francis Miller. 1950)

Picking up discarded lightbulb boxes

(John Dominis. 1952)

“No more radios! Remember–there aren’t going to be any more radios built until after the war. So take good care of the one you have.” (1942)

“More than 2 million General Electric motors will join the armed services this year” (1944) 

“With one shot he knocked out the fort, and the Germans surrendered” (1944)

“In this process of creating MORE GOODS FOR MORE PEOPLE AT LESS COST, which has made the American living standard the highest in the world, GE scientists, engineers, and workmen have played an important part” (1939)

“With electric lights, Josephine’s granddaughter doesn’t have to fill and clean lamps. Her electric cleaner makes it unnecessary to tear up the carpets every spring and lug them out and beat them. … Even if electricity’s contributions to better living had stopped here, we’d still recognize it as one of the greatest benefits of our century.” (1930s)

“General Electric scientists and engineers, by applying electrical methods to the tasks of industry, have helped to provide us with the many products that contribute to our comfort and convenience” (1930s)

“This process of creating real wealth has brought to America the highest standard of living ever known” (1938)

“Swift and responsive as the strings and brasses of a great orchestra, power moves beneath this man’s fingertips” (1930s)

“What makes the wheels go round? Wheels that … make our paper, print our newspapers. Today the answer is electricity.” (1930s)

“A new house of magic for postwar America” (1945)

“War machines that save lives” (1945)

“What is Television? Just another gadget–another form of entertainment? No. It represents another step forward in man’s mastery of time and space” (1940s)

“Garbage? What’s garbage?” (1948)