How People From 1955 Imagined Technology of the Future

Train Track Layer of the Future

The 1975 train-track-layer, which will “do all construction and repair jobs,” was the promise that even major infrastructure process would be improved through automation. Commercial illustrator and Sunday comics artist Arthur Radebaugh would later borrow this idea from 1955 for his strip “Closer Than We Think” in 1958.

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