My own fascination with exploded diagrams on paper goes back to childhood and years spent playing with Erector sets or assembling plastic model airplanes and automobiles (I think I fell in love with the idea of them following while assembling Hellcats and Flying Fortresses).

Wonderful exploded views still show up Lego instructions…

Source:
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/stand-back-for-the-exploded-view