Check Out a Miniature Machine Catalog From 1961

Back before computers were ubiquitous , sales representative had a hard time show their customers what stuff looked like , particularly big stuff . for certain , there were photographs and drawings , but for a full three - dimensional effect , you take a forcible model . That’swhere Topping , Inc. came in .

Having developed new injectant mold methods , Topping was the place to get model back in the fifty and 60s . Remember that shot in The Graduate ? ( “ One word : PLASTICS ” ) Well , Topping would ’ve been the place to figure out . If you perusethe 1961 Topping catalogthat was upload to the internet after half a C in hiding , you could tell from the clients it showcases , that these guys knew their plastics .

Again , the full catalogis online in PDF soma , and it ’s a spate of playfulness to peruse . Not only do you get to gawk at cool models of screwball thing like the Air Force ’s experimental flying saucer or a truck - mounted projectile ; you also get a sense of what cutting boundary technology looked like in 1961 . Even though the designs are all half a hundred old at this point , many of the models still seem futuristic . Unfortunately , the plastic simulation business was not very futuristic . Topping fail out of line in the early 1970s . [ Collect SpaceviaBoing Boing ]

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