Retro Photo (Anything Retro)

[gorgik9]

The Rhino - what a bizarre vehicle!!! I've never even heard of it before!!! Really interesting!!!

 

[gorgik9]

This is a photo I've seen a lot of times before, in so many books!!! I appreciate the coloured version in particular - thanks a lot!!!

 

[jeanlouis]

Panhard, armoured vehicles constructor, was inspired by this rhino.
It is a drawing I grabed a long time ago. Until today I thinked it was a joke of technician. There is 2 seats and 2 tilted blocks of 2 wheels. :thinking:

 

[golfdelta21]

This is a photo I've seen a lot of times before, in so many books!!! I appreciate the coloured version in particular - thanks a lot!!!

Hi Gorgik,
this is the colored version of the Solvay Conference photo.
I don't know if it is an authentic autochrome made in 1927. I think it is more likely to be a recent digital colorisation of the original black and white picture,
GolfDelta

 

[golfdelta21]

Panhard, armoured vehicles constructor, was inspired by this rhino.
It is a drawing I grabed a long time ago. Until today I thinked it was a joke of technician. There is 2 seats and 2 tilted blocks of 2 wheels. :thinking:

Je pense que pour rendre possible la transformation de la voiture Pahnard en véhicule militaire pour tout type de terrain, les techniciens devraient installer un moteur plus puissant que celui de la voiture Panhard

I think that in order to make the transformation of the Panhard into a military vehicle all-terrain, the technicians would have to install an engine more powerful than the one on the Panhard car

 

[golfdelta21]

The first selfie ever was taken in 1839

 

[gorgik9]

Young Cornelius was a handsome guy!!!

 

[golfdelta21]

The dome of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich-then

 

[gorgik9]

@ golfdelta

Is this the Tech University where you worked as a teacher for several years?

 

[golfdelta21]

@ golfdelta

Is this the Tech University where you worked as a teacher for several years?

No, unfortunately, because at ETH the lessons were held mainly in the Swiss-German language (a dialectal version very different from the standard German spoken in Germany) and in German, two languages that I know very little and badly.
I taught at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Lausanne and at USI (Università della Svizzera italiana-University of Italian Switzerland) in Lugano (Switzerland).I also taught in 2 Lombard universities (Italy): at the State University in Pavia and at the Polytechnic in Milan .
Almost 15 years have passed since I stopped being a teacher ... a lifetime ago

 

[golfdelta21]

Aerial view of "Città Studi" in Milan (Italy)

Aerial view of "Città Studi": the university campus of the "Politecnico" and other state scientific institutes in Milan in the 1920s

 

[golfdelta21]

EPFL aerial view. then and now (Lausanne/Switzerland)

Aerial view of what was to become the Lausanne campus (1960)

Aerial view of the EPFL, which forms a large campus with the University of Lausanne (UNIL) at the shores of Lake Geneva (2017)

 

[golfdelta21]

State University in Pavia (Lombardy/Italy)

Aerial view of the 18th-century buildings of the State University of Pavia, founded in 1361. Currently these buildings house the Rector's Office, the University Library, the Great Hall and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.

 

[gorgik9]

No, unfortunately, because at ETH the lessons were held mainly in the Swiss-German language (a dialectal version very different from the standard German spoken in Germany) and in German, two languages that I know very little and badly.
I taught at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Lausanne and at USI (Università della Svizzera italiana-University of Italian Switzerland) in Lugano (Switzerland).I also taught in 2 Lombard universities (Italy): at the State University in Pavia and at the Polytechnic in Milan .
Almost 15 years have passed since I stopped being a teacher ... a lifetime ago

I guess they use Schwitzerdütch in Zürich, the very particular German dialect where Küchenschrank (kitchen cupboard) becomes Küchichästli (or something like that...I'm definitely any kind of specialist in Schwitzerdütch)

Of course, Lausanne and Lugano - I should have remembered since you've told me so before. Ah, my forgetfulness...

 

[golfdelta21]

Eduard Spelterini, Swiss aerial photographer 100 years before Google E

 

[golfdelta21]

Eduard Spelterini, Swiss aerial photographer...part 2/3

 

[golfdelta21]

Eduard Spelterini, Swiss aerial photographer...part 3/3

 

[golfdelta21]

Aerial view of Copenhagen in 1922

 

[golfdelta21]

Aerial photos that look like abstract paintings by Gerster

 

[golfdelta21]

The oldest surviving aerial photograph (Boston -1860)