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IVAN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN 🌲🏎️💨🌲

@Nothke

Nov 7, 2021 • 14 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X

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Just learning about how computers work from a gorgeously drawn old Soviet encyclopedia for children

Look how many cars and trucks we have in our glorious country comrade, all for you to freely choose! (these drawings are soooo good!)

...or a train or a plane! Just pick!

@sovietvisuals

This book is oozing @sovietvisuals, it's amazing. Just love that prefab construction painting, reminds me so much of David Hockney, but precedes his art by a few years! #art

@Bananaft

Unfortunately, this cyberbus seems to have never existed, or was some forgotten prototype (according to @Bananaft's quick research). Would've loved it.

@sovietvisuals

@sovietvisuals You want that car comrade? Good, then you have to learn how to make propaganda first!

This tv diagram is probably the most satisfyingly designed page in the book! 👌

@sovietvisuals

@sovietvisuals Wait, I just realized they were drawing amazing pixel art looong before pixel art was a thing (the book is from 1965!)

Look at that prefab hauling truck straight from "Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic" :D The number of pics with prefabs in this book is over 9000!

Hey, don't forget we got bikes too! You might even need to work less years to get one of these than cars!

Damn, there's so many different art styles in the book, and each one is amazing. Love this shiny blue and black.

How the car works under the hood (he-he) were some of my favorite pages. So clearly presented. The clutch explained as records, nice.

What crazy new technology awaits us in the near future! The photon engine is just behind the corner!

Rocket engine types presented as a tree is so nice too.

I love how this is a children's encyclopedia yet it goes into such a detail from computers to ILS. You can just learn from looking at gorgeous pictures if your were 5, or read everything in depth if you were much older. Nothing is dumbed down, yet everything is clear. Kudos

So yeah, that's the book, from 1965. The book "Technology and Production" is only the 5th volume in a 10 volume collection. My grandpa got it when he traveled to USSR. Loved looking at it (since idk Russian) when I was a kid, but totally forgot it till I saw it on a shelf again.

Oh and it has a nice first page with a message from some random unimportant dude.

There's lots more in the book of course, but I'll end here. Sorry for bad pics, took them with my phone in shit light. Might come back to my grandad's place with a better camera :)

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