Stephen Biesty had some wonderful works I loved as a child.

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Incredible-Cross-Sect...

It was great fun finding the toilet on each and every cross-sectioned exhibit. :D

Very cool! The book they mention looks pretty interesting:

https://us.gestalten.com/products/look-inside

FYI… artists of this generation would often paint their illustration the same size as it was printed. No easy task! Medium was likely gauche on board.

Edit: I meant gouach. This is a very non reflective paint hence ideal for photographing. A few artists still work like this. Check out the work of Glenn Fabry

It's striking how every illustration in the article is fiction, but the cut-away drawings make them look at first as if they might be real.

I'm a total nerd for cutaways.

Nuclear Engineering Magazine ran cutaways of reactors, apparently from the fifties all the way to the nineties.

https://gizmodo.com/these-vintage-cutaway-drawings-show-how-...

Dave Kimble was also well known for his cutaway artwork. https://www.hotrod.com/news/david-kimble-cutaway-x-ray-visio...

I loved the ‘Visual Dictionary’ of 2000s . Damn that booo is peak encyclopaedia, describing everything in amazing detail, I first read that book when I was 5. I have bought a second hand copy of that book for my future kids.

(2016)