Days of Future Passed

[Otto Puzzell]

We Were Promised Jetpacks: The best-named band of the last decade.
What has better conveyed the disaffection of youth than this pissy title?

~Dennis Miller

Here's a nice, exclusive group puzzle for the Pros and Feature Writers. In this grouping you will find visions of transportation
that range from near-term "what if" styling concepts, to the long-term visionary musings of artists, designers and engineers.
To earn a point for identifying any of these, you'll need to answer with at least two of the following listed pieces of information:

• The name of the person who painted, drew or crafted the future vision.


• The publication name and date in which the future vision was presented.


• The specific attributes ascribed to the future vision (such as "concept for an atomic-powered pogo stick").


• The event or year the future vision either represented or was presented to the public.

So, here they are, in no particular order of type, medium or era.

Enjoy!


General Motors "Monoline Express", from the May 21, 1961 Chicago Tribune


Illustration by Alexander Leydenfrost appeared in the fiftieth anniversary issue of Popular Mechanics January 1952


Buick Century 60 by Art-Ross 1939


The Bonanza Leisure-Mobile by Richard Arbib 1972


1968: Buckminster Fuller's "Travel Cartridge"


Colliers Magazine 1901 illustration of the year 2000


1943 rendering of a personal helicopter, by Alex S Tremulis


"Highway of the Future" Popular Science May 1938


GM "Road Extruder in the Amazon" 1964 Worlds Fair


Boys' Life Oct 1965 The Cars of Tomorrow Illustration by Ted Ludigensky


Albert Robida's "Going to the Opera in year 2000", from 1882


Charles Stewart Cadillac from 1966


November 30, 1958 edition of This Week magazine ran this illustration of the flying family car that was but "2 years away".


Arthur Radebaugh's "Closer Than We Think" Chicago Tribune 1959 - Tunnel to Siberia


John Melberg's 1966 entry / Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild


1957: Oct 22 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune - flying bus proposed by Charles Zimmerman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)


Syd Mead Illustration for US Steel, 1969


Carl H Renner's GM Gyroscopic Rocket Car, 1945


Boys' Life Oct 1981 The Car of the Future – What Will You Drive When You're 21 Illustration by Louis Escobedo


September 21, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's "Closer Than We Think" Quick color change car.

[Ultra]

Sweet puzzle!!!

[guido66]

#2:
Alexander LeydenFrost
Popular Mechanics january 1952
"science on the march"

[guido66]

#20: September 21, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We Think
Quick-change car colors

[guido66]

#13: Flying Family car, November 30, 1958 edition of This Week magazine

[guido66]

#14: Highway to Russia
March 3, 1959 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We Think
as imagined by Senator Warren G. Magnuson

[guido66]

#16: Flying bus
October 22, 1957 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune

[guido66]

#7: Personal Helicopter 1943, by Alex S. Tremulis appears in the book Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future by Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan.

[guido66]

#5: Buckminster Fullers traveling cartridge
illustration from the 1968 book Transportation in the World of the Future.

[guido66]

#1: Monoline Express
Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We Think! strip for the May 21, 1961 Chicago Tribune

[guido66]

#6: Collier's Illustrated Future of 2001 (1901)
appeared in Collier's weekly, january 12, 1901

[guido66]

#11: Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882), by Albert Robida. There is some discussion about the dating of this artwork

[guido66]

#18: Carl H. Renner painted this "Escacar" for General Motors in 1945. The Escacar is described as a "Unicycle Gyroscopic Rocket Car."

[guido66]

#17: from USS (United States Steel International) - a portfolio of probabilities: a look at the future from an early 60s perspective, by artist Syd Mead

[guido66]

#8: From Popular Science, May 1938. Article: Highways of the future, drawing by B.G. Seielstad, article by E.W. Murtfeldt

[Otto Puzzell]

I see guido66 discovered the primary source of these pictures. Nice of him to leave a few for the rest of you.

[guido66]

Found another one 

#9: a road-building machine by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Bill Cotter and others

[Ehhxekt]

#3: Bucik Century 60 by Arthur "Art" Ross, 1938
#4: GM Bonanza Leisure-Mobile with Modular Power Unit by Richard H. Arbib, 1972

[Otto Puzzell]

Found another one 

#9: a road-building machine by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Bill Cotter and others

That's what is does, not what it is. Can you give me either the name given to the device, the company behind, the date, or the venue?

[Otto Puzzell]

#3: Bucik Century 60 by Arthur "Art" Ross, 1938
#4: GM Bonanza Leisure-Mobile with Modular Power Unit by Richard H. Arbib, 1972

Both Correct

[Otto Puzzell]

Three more to go, PAFW's

[guido66]

Found another one 

#9: a road-building machine by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Bill Cotter and others

That's what is does, not what it is. Can you give me either the name given to the device, the company behind, the date, or the venue?

I think the venue was the 1964 Futurama in New York

[Otto Puzzell]

Futurama (II) at the 1964 New York World's Fair is correct.

[guido66]

Three more to go, PAFW's

I'm counting 4  #10, #12, #15 and #19

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, there you go. 3 4 more points on offer.