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    LINEAR PROGRESSION: HOW THE LINEAR DISPLAY CAME TO EXIST

    May 01, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS ADRIAN HAILWOOD

    hen designs appear both old and new together, there is a term for it: retro-futurism. This is not the remembrance of times gone by but a past impression of a possible future; a nostalgia for anticipation if you like. When it comes to information display technology, it is remarkable how the mid-20th century implied “futuristic” by a change from rotary to linear display. From the 1950s to the 1970s car makers gave dashboards a cutting-edge appearance by fitting a linear speedometer. These varied from a pointer that swept a segment

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