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A communicator from the original 'Star Trek' series, which ran from 1966 to 1969.
The Motorola StarTAC, the first 'flip' cell phone from 1996. Wonder how they came up with the name.
A computer illustration of the fictional Nautilus submarine featured in the 1954 Disney movie version of '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1958.
The moon with a rocket stuck in its eye in Georges Melies' 1902 movie 'A Voyage to the Moon.'
The Starship Enterprise in the original 'Star Trek' series.
The space shuttle Enterprise during a test flight in September 1977.

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