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In January 1949, the Benedetti Brothers & Co. of Santa Clara Valley published their latest home technology catalog. Inside: wireless telephones, portable radios, data wristwatches, and tabulating machines for the home - all available for immediate delivery. Silicon Valley Reimagined: Illustrated Gadgets from an Alternate 1949 presents a meticulously crafted product catalog from a timeline where the tech revolution arrived decades early. Each illustrated gadget carries the analog aesthetic of the postwar era - warm wood finishes, vacuum tubes, precision dials - wrapped around technology the real 1949 could never have imagined. Complete with fictional manufacturers, period-accurate pricing, and 2025 equivalents that reveal just how far ahead of their time these devices were, this is alternate history told not through narrative, but through the everyday language of commerce - a catalog from a world that almost was. For readers who love technology history, industrial design, speculative fiction, and the enduring question of what Silicon Valley might have looked like if someone had gotten there first.

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Joseph Fortune is the collective creative signature of Epic Foundry Press, an independent publisher dedicated to richly illustrated alternate histories and imagined worlds. Each title blends human storytelling with visual design, reimagining moments in history through a vivid, visual lens.Epic Foundry Press titles include The Roman Empire Above, Silicon Valley Reimagined, The Alternate World of 1929, and July 2029: Destinations Beyond Earth, as well as the humor series Epic Moments in History.Books from Epic Foundry Press are available worldwide, with more previews and updates shared under the hashtag #efpbooks.

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