Textbook Information Graphics

WIRED Magazine thinks the Classic 1950s Science Textbooks need to update their artworks.

The textbooks written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progress and artistic methods evolve. So we gave these mid-century classics a 21st-century update.

Come in and take a look these beautifully illustrated Infographics.

Earthquake Visualization

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Exploring Under the Earth, 1960 illustration: John Polgreen
Updated illustration: Jason Lee
Then: Stand-alone seismogaphs
Now: Global seismic networks

Mars mapping

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Exploring Mars, 1956 illustration: Lowell Hess
Updated map: NASA
Then: Telescope and graphite
Now: Satellite, laser, and supercomputer

Atmospheric Imagery

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Exploring the Weather, 1957 illustration: Lowell Hess
Updated illustration, 2009: Bryan Christie
Then: 2-D
Now: 3-D

Read the article at WIRED