History of inventions and Innovations / Handwork Pay price
Presently,
beauty pageants are focused on finding beauty with brains and that is fair
enough. The participants are put through some tough tasks and tests and history
is no different in this field except for one test that was conducted and had a
separate title.
This title was associated
with Chiropractic as it had just begun to be a profession during the 1950s and
1960s. This picture is straight out of a chiropractic convention held in
Chicago in May of 1956.
We may be used to selfies
now, but it's Robert Cornelius's 1839 image that lays claim to the first
self-portrait. Taken in Philadelphia, Cornelius sat for a
little over one minute before covering the lens.
In this
fascinating capture from nearly a century ago, we see the photographers of the
Byron Company getting together for a portrait on the roof of Marceau’s
photography studio in New York City. Holding one side of the camera with his
right hand is Joseph Byron, while Ben Falk holds the other side with his left
hand. The remaining three people in the photo are Pirie MacDonald, Colonel
Marceau and Pop Core.
The
photograph was taken in December of 1920 and is one of 23,000 Byron Co. prints
digitized on the Museum of the City of New York’s Collection Portal. You
can see an additional portrait of the same group that took place in December of
1920, but I am unsure if it was on the same day.
This
is Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland police force who got
official training in gun shooting. She served as a police officer for seven
years from 1970 to 1977. This powerful history needs to find a spot in the
textbooks too.
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importance in African-American history and for Officer Saundra Brown, this is a
page in her book that would be remembered for a long time.
There was no stopping for
this woman as she became the deputy district attorney of Alameda County after
she received a J.D. at the University Of San Francisco School Of Law. Her
achievements didn’t end there as she soon rose to the position of Senior Judge
of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
The Protective Garment Corporation of
New York must have had a lot of faith in not only their product, the
bulletproof vest, but also in the abilities of this man shooting the gun. A
live demonstration of their state-of-the-art lightweight police vest was held
in 1923, where they shot at the salesman wearing one. We don’t know if they
made a pair of bulletproof pants as well, but it wouldn’t be shocking if the
assistant needed a new pair after each demonstration.
During
the 1920s, some rules regarding drinking were implemented by the US federal
government. They aimed at urging people to give up the drinking habit. The
rules and regulations put forward did not see much success leading to a firm
decision of adding more quantity of methanol in alcohol.
This step gave an
opportunity to bootleggers as the demand suddenly increased and they expected a
rise in their sales. However, they could not escape the police checking. This
photo is proof!
The lumber truck is
undergoing inspection as it carried alcohol that was hidden behind a stack of
wood. The smugglers might have done it smartly but they can’t take off so
easily when the rules are strict.
During World War, many
people are a volunteer the world, and due to that, women have to take care of
their home and kids.
Sometimes
they have to carry guns to protect their family, so just like that, here you
can see a 106-year-old grandmother who is carrying a rifle to protect her
family.
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but still wants to fight, and her facial expression says, that come on, let’s
fight and end this forever.
In
the creation of the Lord Almighty- the Omnipotent
Great is the man- roof and crown of creation-the Omniscient
Has contributed not a little for the progress of the world
And the names of such great to be etched in the letters of gold!
Scientists,
historians, mathematicians, artists, – host of
Great intellectuals from time to time were born, to boast of
And grew and served till their lives for the society to prosper
With peace and harmony, health and happiness all over!
Nobel Laureate
Albert Einstein was born this day hundred and thirty
Eight years ago in Germany-inventor of Theory
Of Relativity leading to quantum theory in the field
Of Physics- that made the lives easier and comfortable!
This photo
shows the effects of the snowstorm and how the snow just covered everything
rising to an unexpected level.
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A destructive blizzard struck the United States and the east side of the
Rockies in 1966 taking the lives of almost 200 people. Out of these, 31 just
froze in the snow and died. The temperature dropped to an unbelievable low and
heavy snowfall just ruined the situation.
Many people died in fire accidents during those days. They attempted to create
some warmth at their homes but that fire took their lives.
Ali, born Cassius Clay,
is best known today as one of the greatest athletes to ever step foot inside a
boxing ring. But he was also an outspoken activist whose conscientious
objection to serving in the Vietnam War would see him lose the heavyweight
title and be effectively barred from his sport for over three years.
“I can’t take part in nothing,” Ali later said of his
decision, “where I’d help the shooting of dark Asiatic people, who haven’t
lynched me, deprived me of my freedom, justice and equality, or assassinated my
leaders.”
Ever since the legend of Icarus and
possibly even before that, man dreamed of flying. And it finally happened in
1903, when the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, flew their wooden plane,
the Wright Flyer, in North Carolina. It was the first sustained flight of a
heavier-than-air object using its own power. They also engineered and built the
plane themselves so that makes the feat even more admirable.
While selfies have become a
crucial part of our generation, there was a time when they were non-existent.
No one used the term “selfie” before 2002. However, Frank Sinatra, an iconic
singer took one in 1938 and it’s a cool one!
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So, we can’t take the credit for being the “inventors” of the selfie as they
trended way before we were born. Sinatra was only 17 when he took this picture
of himself in a mirror.
Moonshiners
are a very ancient liquor company. In an earlier day, they are used to smuggle
liquors with different techniques.
To not get
caught by coopers, they used to use different times to sell their liquors to
people.
This
time, they come with the most popular technique: they create cow shoes made up
of metal strips with carved wooden blocks to resemble cow hooves.
And they
attached them under their shoes to cover up their footprints. We can say that
human intelligence has no boundaries.
Not much after the first flight in 1903,
the US got its first subway in New York in 1904. George McClellan, the City’s
mayor, opened it and even drove the first passengers on a track that was 9.1
miles long and had 28 stations. At the time, people saw it more as a circus act
than a means of transportation. Talk about how times have changed
This photo stands as a symbol
of women’s power and strength.
We might want to look back at this shot taken on October 10, 1885, of three
genius women at the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia and remember that
they are capable of achieving great heights.
Another aspect of this photo is the diversity it depicts. These women belong to
three different countries - India, Japan, and Syria and are dressed up in their
traditional outfits.
All of them came to study medicine and become doctors despite the boundaries
set for them. It wasn’t easy for women to step out of the four walls of their
house but these women broke the stereotypes and landed in a new country to gain
knowledge and earn respect!
He was the Rebel without a Cause, one of
the first Hollywood hunks that became a cultural icon. James Dean may have
played only in 3 movies, but his legacy is huge. This is his last photo before
he went on a drive that eventually ended his life at the age of only 24. You
could see in his smile that he had the lust for life, especially fast cars,
like his beloved “Little Bastard”, a Porsche 550 Spyder.
This
good-looking couple has set an example for people who are in love and are
looking forward to getting married to their partners.
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean share a beautiful relationship and not many are
aware of their love story. They have managed to keep it out of all the glitz
and lights of the industry.
Here, in this “unexplored” picture, they can be seen smiling and posing for the
camera after they got married in a secret ceremony in 1966.
Dolly revealed in an interview, “I always joke and laugh when people ask me
whats the key to my long marriage and lasting love. I always say 'Stay gone!'
and there’s a lot of truth to that. I travel a lot, but we really enjoy each
other when we’re together and the little things we do.”
This huge box
is not any big machine or computer that is being transported from one place to
another with the strength of over 4 people involved.
It’s a hard drive with a storage of 5 megabytes. That amount of storage and
such enormous size of the hard drive! This storage was leased for $3,000 a
month by the company that is equivalent to $30,000 today.
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In contrast to this, we can carry more than 32 gigabytes on our phones daily.
While 5 MB of IBM storage could only hold around 6 photos, that would not be
quite helpful in the present generation of unlimited selfies at one time.
Leo the
Lion has been the most regular star of MGM Pictures since it was founded
on this day in 1924, and his roar is probably the sound most commonly
associated with the studio.
It’s one of the noises
most reminiscent of the Golden Age of Hollywood, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(generally known as MGM) was one of the biggest studios around. What better
symbol than a lion? But the first MGM lion was actually named Slats, not
Leo, and he didn’t roar once in the “bumper”–the technical term
for the little clip that’s like a moving logo for each studio involved with a
film. With the sang froid that befits movie royalty,
Slats just looked around.
It was taken by Nicéphore Niépce in a commune in
France called Saint-Loup-de-Varennes somewhere between 1826 and
1827.
The process of taking a photo
used to be much more complicated.
To capture this moment in time, Niépce wanted to use a light-sensitive material
so the light itself would "etch" the image for him. After much
struggle and trial and error, he finally found the perfect formula. According to the
University of Texas at Austin, he developed some sort of combination
of bitumen of Judea, a
type of asphalt, and spread it over this pewter plate.
After letting the image sit in a camera obscura for eight hours,
the outdoor light eventually did all the work for him. Here's the University of
Texas's description for how he did it:
When he let this petroleum-based substance sit in a camera
obscura for eight hours without interruption, the light gradually hardened the
bitumen where it hit, thus creating a rudimentary photo. He
"developed" this picture by washing away the unhardened bitumen with
lavender water, revealing an image of the rooftops and trees visible from his
studio window.
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photograph was born. Niépce himself
called it heliography, or "light
writing."
While it was a revolution in
technology, the plate itself went missing for quite some time. Eventually, it was found in
storage, in an unknown crate, in 1952.
When you look at the photo,
it's nothing much: just a grainy view of a roof somewhere in France. And yet,
you can thank it for the fact that you have thousands of photos on your iPhone
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In professional football, the only line of defense against head
injury is the helmet. But the earliest football helmet looked more like a
padded aviator cap than the high-tech crash-tested helmet used by today’s
players.
It is not certain who invented the football helmet. In 1896
Lafayette College halfback George “Rose” Barclay began to use straps and
earpieces to protect his ears. His headgear soon became known as a “head
harness”. It had three thick leather straps forming a close fit around his
head, made by a harness maker. Some other sources say that helmets come to life
when an Annapolis shoemaker created the first helmet for Admiral Joseph Mason
Reeves, who had been advised by a Navy doctor that he would be risking death or
“instant insanity” if he took another kick to the head.
One innovation from the early
1900s period was hardened leather. 1917 marked the first time helmets were
raised above the head in an attempt to direct blows away from the top of the
head. Ear flaps also had their downfall during this period as they had little
ventilation and made it difficult for players to hear. The 1920s marked the
first time that helmets were widely used in the sport of football. These
helmets were made of leather and had some padding on the inside, but the
padding was insufficient and provided little protection. In addition, they
lacked face masks. As a result, injuries were very common. Early helmets also
absorbed a lot of heat, making them very uncomfortable to wear.
By the 1950s, the introduction of polymers ended the leather
helmet era. The NFL also recommended face masks for players in 1955, reducing
the number of broken noses and teeth, but also necessitating new rules
prohibiting opposing players from grabbing the face mask.
His real name was Frank “Rocky” Fiegel. He was born in 1868
in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his
parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. As a young man,
Rocky went to sea. After a 20 year career as a sailor in the Merchant
Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch’s Tavern in the
city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.Rocky
quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting (and
usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye (“Pop-eye”).
He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his
mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the
customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to
have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.The creator of
Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young
man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening
to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea’ stories.’ Years later, Segar became a
cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honored
Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the
Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally, Fiegel was flattered and agreed.Segar
claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based
on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store
in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl
character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way.
In 1941, the
Empire State Building attracted many people to New York City as it was the only
building that stood taller than the other structures around. There were no
skyscrapers other than this one during those days, hence, leading to all the
attention towards this.
This photo is bringing out a different side of the Empire State Building that
we missed as more and more skyscrapers were built over the years and covered
the entire city.
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When this was the only skyscraper to exist In New York, people traveled from
far to have a look at this high-rise building.
This photo has
captured a clear contrast in what fashion meant to women in the 1960s. A group
of nuns standing close to a stylish woman shows the varied sense of fashion
that existed.
The nuns seem quite impressed by the fashionista as revealed by
their smiles. No heavy opinions or judgments were being thrown for dressing a
certain way in those times.
The outfit of that woman is quite different from the traditional gowns worn by
the nuns. They are reflecting simplicity while that lady has her style on point
with perfect accessories. One thing that’s similar is the elegance and
confidence!
This
photo is in the list of historical photos list because it shows how people were
to each other when they are in the position to serve the people. But they can
hide their real feelings from people.
This
photograph was taken by a Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, and the
person name is Joseph Goebbels, who was the Third Reich’s propaganda minister,
during the League of Nations conference in 1933.
He was a Nazi, and after the fall of Hitler, he makes his
way, but he won’t dissolve the hate of Jewish people from his heart which can
also be seen in the photograph.
There were no
mobile phones in the 1970s, the devices that make it extremely convenient to
get updates on your family and friends in the present times.
This is a 1970s night scene from a women's dormitory who are
queueing to make a call to their family and friends. The communal phone was
surrounded by many people at one time as there was no other source of
connecting with your loved ones when living far from home.
This is how the women waited near the phone to just have one conversation back
home. The smiles reflect the happiness of finally being able to hear their
family.
We all love McDonald’s and
its food chains. Now in each country, McDonald’s has so many stories, but this
was the photograph of his first store in San Bernardino, California.
The owner also would not
know that his business was going to make a revolution all over the world. This
is the biggest food chain all over the world.
Here’s a
lesser-known fact – Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein admired each other’s
work and always wanted to have a “fan moment”. Their wish was fulfilled in
January of 1931 when they ran into each other at the City of Lights premiere.
Einstein had once expressed his desire to meet Chaplin one day revealing that
he was the only celebrity that he wished to see in person. Einstein told
Chaplin, “What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t
say a word, yet the world understands you!”
Chaplin responded with another wonderful complement to Einstein, “It’s true,
but your fame is even greater: the world admires you, when nobody understands
what you say.”
This photo looks more like a
mug shot than the one with the students of Princeton University in it. But,
believe it or not, they were, only just after an annual freshman-sophomore
snowball fight of 1893. You might have expected more from the students of one
of the more prestigious universities in the US, but certain traditions have to
be honored. Why they took this photo is still debated, though.
This picture is
full of emotions as the survivors of World War II caught the first glimpse of
the Statue of Liberty in 1946 on arriving in the United States.
World War II displaced many people and the refugees needed a place to go.
That’s when the United States opened doors for the Jewish refugees and all
those who got through the Holocaust. The country gave them a chance to begin a
new journey.
The statue welcomed them with the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free!”
War is a terrible thing,
and no one wants it. Not a single country wants its people to die, but history
showed us many wars.
War
photos are always historical photos because if we don’t read or listen to the
war story, we can see the pain in the picture and how was it terrible for those
people.
This photo
took Normandy’s beaches on D-Day; here is one view from the landing craft
getting soldiers there.
We all love Disney cartoons and
movies, and we also know the history of Walt Disney and his struggle. But there
are very few people who know about the other team members.
No company can grow without dedicated team members. This
historical photo is the core team of Disney Company, who gave their lives to
entertain all of us.
Titanic had the
world’s biggest anchor during that time and we can only imagine the time and
manpower that would have made its construction possible.
The anchor came all the way from Noah Hingley and Son in 1910 and the owners
placed an order for 603 meters of chain from Hingley's Anchor Works. This photo
is explaining how the making of the anchor chain began.
Link by link, the makers made a solid chain that would match up to the size of
the enormous vessel.
Flight attendant is a dream job for many
ladies and they often look glamorous in their uniforms. But, in the early days
of commercial jet airliners, certain outfits were done in a way that would not
necessarily be acceptable by today’s standards. In 1959, SAS Airlines started
using interesting rather short uniform, as can be seen in this photo. The good
old days.
Women
struggle never ends in any field. She always has to prove to everyone that she
can do anything that she wants to. In every field, man has to always dominate
women.
In 1967 women won’t allow
taking part in the marathon race. Kathrine Switzer was the first woman who
broke this rule and enrolled in the marathon.
But race
official, the notorious Jock Semple, tried to take her number away during the
race, as seen in the photo.
Hitler was planning for a long time to
occupy Great Britain, but since it was an island, many things had to happen in
order to start the attack. Main problems were Britain’s anti-aircraft defense
and naval fleet, so it took a while. But, Britain did not just sit and wait,
they were preparing for the attack, too. Even the prestigious college like Eton
did regular military drills, as can be seen in this photo. British being
British, they were perfect gentlemen even when carrying rifles.
A
horse weighing 16 times an average human is expected to have a few fans.
Brooklyn Supreme is the star here as this red roan Belgian stallion weighed
3,197 pounds and measure six and a half feet.
Whether this horse is the largest one to exist is a moot point but its enormous
size made it popular. Its owners Charles Grant Good and Ralph M. Fogleman
entered a partnership with Good and exhibited this horse around the US charging
ten cents from the “viewers”.
You surely cannot recognize him in this
photo at young age and without the beard, but it is Osama Bin Laden, once
world’s most wanted terrorist. The photo was taken during the family vacation
in Sweden in 1970. Can’t say for sure what was going on in his head then, but
don’t think it was terrorist attacks. Just don’t understand how do you get from
smiling in front of a pink limousine on a vacation to killing innocent people?
It is always hard when the same nations
are artificially separated by border, like in case of North and South Korea or
Germany in the days after the II World War. Many families were split by the
border and their lives changed forever. This photo shows a German soldier
risking his life in order to get the young boy across the barbed wire fence in
hope to find his family. Thankfully, human compassion knows no boundaries.
When you spend all your time onboard the
navy ship, you need to find something to keep you sane. And sailors on USS
Oregon, better known as the Bulldog of the Navy, found just the right thing to
shake them up – boxing. You could blow off some steam and the spectators could
enjoy themselves just the same and relieve some stress. Just not sure if the
superior officers allowed a sick leave to the ones who got badly beaten.
As imagined, war can be rather
demoralizing, especially for the troops engaged in a close combat, like many US
soldiers in Vietnam were. US government tried to find the ways to increase the
morale and one of the most efficient ones was to invite the movie stars to
visit the troops. Chris Noel, a Hollywood sex symbol, visited the troops many
times and even hosted a popular radio show ‘A date with Chris’. Many Vietnam
vets have fond memories of her.
Not sure how would it be treated today,
but baby racing used to be rather popular in the 1940s and 1950s. There was
even a Diaper Derby, an annual baby racing competition sponsored by the
National Institute of Diaper Services. It usually included stuffed animals at
the finish line to draw babies attention and serve as a prize. Not that it
always worked, since babies might decide to stand up (which meant
disqualification) and go in the opposite direction, or just fall asleep midway.
Like babies cared for rules.
Being an island, it was important for
England to teach their children to swim in timely manner. But, in the 1920s,
not every school had a swimming pool, so they had to be resourceful. It is hard
to learn the moves laying flat on the ground, so the teacher came up with an
ingenious solution – place your tummy across another kid’s back – and you are
floating. Now you can learn the breaststroke, no problem.
Sport has changed a lot since the 1960s,
just like the fashion trends. Nowadays, athletes use any means necessary to
improve their results and the looks are reserved for off court. But in the
1960s, it was not necessarily so – the ladies in the photo seem to care more
about their hairdos, than the result they’re going to achieve. Wonder what did
they look like after the race?
When
Harry L. Bowdoin applied for the patent for his submarine armor in 1914, diving
was not much developed. Perhaps he was counting on that and not having much
competition, since the reality was rather cruel – it did not have the success
that he had hoped for. Perhaps because he was ahead of time and hindered by
technology not being up to the task, like lightweight materials, lighting,
breathing apparatus and everything else needed for a successful dive. Typical
destiny of an inventor.
A
rather nice gesture by New York city authorities in 1967, who created a
Swim-Mobile, a swimming pool on wheels. It was towed by a truck to various
locations around the city, so the kids could cool down and enjoy themselves. It
used water from the hydrants and stayed in one place for a day. Really nice way
to bring the community together – kids would relax in a pool and parents had a
chance to meet their neighbors and enjoy each other’s company.
Chess is a popular board game, usually
played in enclosed spaces. But not in Russia in the mid 1920s. They played it
outside, with real people as figures, like in this photo showing a match in St.
Petersburg’s Palace Square, with Red Army representing the black pieces and
Soviet Navy the white ones. Knights were riding real horses and rooks had
miniature cannons. The match was actually played between the two Russian
grandmasters who called their moves by telephone.
In this photo taken in Rukajärvi
(Finland) in November 1942, a Soviet spy is laughing at his executioner. It was
the act of final defiance, knowing there is nothing he can do to avoid his
faith. Such photos were not published at the time, fearing they might be used
for propaganda purposes by pro-Soviet elements. The Ministry of Defense of Finland
declassified this photo, named “Unknown Soviet intelligence officer before
being shot”, in 2006.
The infamous Mussolini façade of the
Palazzo Braschi in Rome, showing the leader’s face and the “SI” (Italian for
“yes”), referring to the 1934 Italian general elections with a simple yes/no
vote on the Fascist Party list. Mussolini saw Rome as the capital of the
fascist empire and wanted to transform the Eternal City in stages of urban
development with grandiose buildings whose look would project his achievements
and fascist objectives. His execution at the end of WWII ended his dream.
During a bombing mission over Hanoi as
part of Operation Rolling Thunder in October 1967, John McCain was shot down,
seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese, as shown in this
photo. He was a prisoner of war until 1973, where he was tortured, but refused
an out-of-sequence early release, before all the American POWs captured before
him. After the war, he turned to politics, until his death in 2018.
One of the most famous speeches ever held was by Martin Luther King, the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, in front of more than 250,000 civil rights supporters during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28. August 1963. The main subject of the speech, which was considered to be the greatest call to end racism in America, were the freedom rights of the black people. He continued the fight for the rights of black people until his assassination in 1968.
Ali, born Cassius Clay,
is best known today as one of the greatest athletes to ever step foot inside a
boxing ring. But he was also an outspoken activist whose conscientious
objection to serving in the Vietnam War would see him lose the heavyweight
title and be effectively barred from his sport for over three years.
“I can’t take part in nothing,” Ali later said of his
decision, “where I’d help the shooting of dark Asiatic people, who haven’t
lynched me, deprived me of my freedom, justice and equality, or assassinated my
leaders.”
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