Industrial Historian Gifts

Rose colored glasses.

Power Station

Sucking Up

'One day son, all this will be asset stripped.'

I believe it's all done now by a microchip in Milton Keynes.

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Economy - USA.

Fossil record player.

"So many take-overs and mergers, nobody remembers who he was."

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'Unforeseeable future site of Hainesmore Industries.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"You will be visited by three ghosts - the Ghost of Porfolios Past, The Ghost of Present Positions and the Ghost of Commodities Future."

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"Well, of course we married industrialists. All three of us were young and beautiful, and smokestack America looked like it would last forever."

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

Congratulations Strike Over!

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. Sorry."

'Someday son, all this will be yours to argue with the Environmental Protection Agency over.'

The American Nightmare.

Henry Ford

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

Bank of Cyprus-sia

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

'I want a scurrilous biography. If it was good enough for Getty, it will be good enough for me.'

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

Air Pollution Threat

"Someday, my dimwitted son, all this will belong to your sister."