There’s plenty of footage out there showing what people thought the year 2000 would bring from the 1950s and 60s but what about the view from 1900?
A series of postcards from German chocolate company Hildebrands gives us a glimpse into their thoughts on life at the turn of the millennium, a far more whimsical (and corseted) vision of what was to be.
A Quick Stroll on the Water
The Moving Pavement
House-Moving by Train
Televised Outside Broadcasting
Personal Flying Machines
Combined Ship and Railway Locomotive
Weather Control Machine
Undersea Tourist Boats
Roofed Cities
Personal Airships
Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine
Summer Holidays at the North Pole
Source: paleofuture