Credit cards of the past




Saw these two on Kottke, which had found them on the Smithsonian Museum site. They say:

Plastic American Express credit card, 1963. The first plastic credit cards appeared in the early 1960s. By this time the old booklets were no longer very useful. Credit cards were beginning to be accepted by an increasing number of vendors making the booklets too cumbersome and negating their purpose. Plastic enabled vendors to use the cards in charge plate machines, making the recording of transactions easier and more accurate.

UK power stations
There's poetry in our brutally futuristic industrial units – unless you actually live within ten miles of one. Sadly, we won't be making stuff like this when all our electricity comes from recycled mung beans. Progress? Pah.

Ratcliffe



Eggborough



Fiddlers Ferry





Drax



Tinsley Towers: The demise

Bathtimes will never be the same again. Seriously



Not really much to add is there? Got this from the ever so pretentious Cool Hunter blog, who in turn nicked it from Wallpaper. The only problem is that it looks a little bit like a urinal for dead big people. Still, if you're that rich to buy one of these Ron Arad jobs who cares if it looks like you bathe in piss.