In these essays, Kurt Möser revisits unusual fields of our technological and cultural past. Cameras, airports, racing boats, and battleships gain significance and provide methodological and thematic inspiration. Criminals as creative users of technology, magic and aviation, the lineage of computers from ship-targeting systems, and eccentrics of technology are some of the topics, organized into categories such as objects, spaces, people, discomfort, the old and the new, and the personal.