Side point but I can't help it: I can't bare static image navigation like this anymore, especially from a tech site like wired. I work on a widescreen laptop and I have to scroll down every time a new page loads with the next image.
These are interesting to see but framing it in terms of people helping to identify them seems kind of gimmicky. A box with dials and terminals on it could be almost anything and that's all that a lot of these pictures show. If they also posted pictures of the circuits inside then they would have a lot more of a chance of someone actually figuring it out.
Unless you happen to be retired from NIST and remember that particular device.
Using a carousel instead of requiring a full page load for each image would certainly help. Or making the "view all" link more prominent.
> On the following pages are a few of our favorites among those already posted. They and other artifacts can be seen in higher resolution in NIST's archive. If you know what any of them are, let NIST know.
To Wired's credit - this is merely a news article that links to the relevant NIST site.