Gadgets that Changed the World

1946 RCA Model 630TS


1949 Western Electric 500


1953 Kodak Brownie 127


1962 Bell & Howell Zoomatic


1967 Amana Radarange


1976 JVC HR - 3300


1977 Atari 2600


1979 Sony Walkman


1981 IBM 5150


1996 Motorola Star Tac

Interesting, huh? Seems like we've always had this stuff, doesn't it?

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Antique Lunch Boxes

Parents 100 years ago often gave their schoolchildren an empty tobacco or coffee tin to carry some fresh-picked strawberries and bread, a wedge of cheese, and possibly a handful of shelled hickory nuts.

American industrial workers have often carried their lunch in plain metal buckets. Since the mid-19th century, miners, factory workers, dock hands, and other laborers have used sturdy dinner pails to hold hard-boiled eggs, vegetables, meat, coffee, pie, and other hardy fare. Here is a collection of antique lunch boxes.

This one looks like an old time beverage container. Cool huh?

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