History helps to correctly assess the events of past years and understand exactly how our modern reality was formed. However, it is far from always desirable to do this by memorizing dry dates and an infinite number of names. Fortunately, there is another way to learn interesting and important historical facts, for example, by looking at curious photographs that photographers of past years have carefully preserved for us. In this case, the learning process will proceed many times faster and more exciting. We suggest you try to learn something new for yourself right now.
#01. Photograph of an engineer making a connection to one of the first IBM computers, 1958
#02. Fathers of the Church Council with their secretaries leave St. Peter’s Basilica, 1962-1965
#03. Actress Veronica Lake with her hair curled on a drill press, 1943
In the photo, the actress demonstrates the potential danger that women may face in factories while working. In a sense, the snapshot is a warning that was supposed to reduce the number of accidents.
#04. Fermilab hard drive, 1973
#05. Men stand on a section of steel pipe for the Hoover Dam nearing completion, in 1935.
#06. Alexander Colonna-Valevsky, Napoleon’s illegitimate son, 1860
#07. Titanic anchor chain by Hingley & Sons, 1909
#08. Ashtrays and coin-operated TV chairs at the Los Angeles bus station, 1969
#09. Lunch aboard a Scandinavian plane, 1969
#10. Howard Carter, Arthur Callender, and an Egyptian worker see Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus for the first time, in 1924
#11. Traditional Rwandan hairstyle, 1923
#12. Traditional Rwandan hairstyle, 1923
#13. Apollo 1 crew practice landing on water, 1966
#14. Yuri Gagarin pours himself a mug of beer while visiting the Karlsberg brewery in Copenhagen, in 1962
#15. Motorola engineer John Mitchell with his telephone on a New York street, 1973
Mitchell helped design the first mobile phone.
#16. Wake-up woman raising workers to shift, 1940-1950
Before the first alarm clocks appeared, in England and Ireland there was a profession of “alarm clockers”. These were people who walked the streets early in the morning and woke up their customers until they were sure they were awake. The woman in the picture shoots peas through the window with a homemade pea gun.
#17. Coca-Cola came to France, in 1950
#18. Color photograph of Thomas Edison examining his invention, the light bulb, 1911
