15 aircraft with lots of wings 10 console light guns 12 giant airship hangars 10 failed automobile manufacturers 15 skyscrapers on hold 10 flea circus contraptions top 9 examples of technological regress 16 hilariously unimpressive computer ads 17 most extreme speakers The 10 most important examples of neon signage most beautiful airport terminals Imagine a gas powered desktop publishing system that weighed several tons, leaked oil, had thousands of moving parts, its own boiler full of molten lead and a keyboard where you couldn’t see what you had typed and which looked a thousand times more strange and complicated than any deliberately anachronistic Steampunk PC casemod. This is how the machines that laid out the pages of newspapers were till the 80s, and to give some idea of how recent this technology was used, they were manufactured until after the release of the Apple computer. Linotype had a virtual monopoly on the typesetting of newspapers for a hundred years and their design is a superb example of an endlessly refined solution to what became an anachronistic problem.