[See Part 1 for more. Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889]
America Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 2
Category: History
American Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 1
[Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
The Muskegon Streetcar Riot of 1919
The Muskegon Traction Company raised the ride fare by 1 cent in August of 1919, it began a riot that lasted through the night, destroying streetcars and causing chaos in the city.
Workers refused to pay more than 6 cents per fare ($1.06 in 2023 dollars).
[More here. h/t Pam M.]
1965 NASA PDAD Robot
The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.
The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.
Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
WWI U.S. Tank “America”
Original caption:
American-built tank “America”, designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in July of 1918.
[Un-colorized image found in this collection.]
Eiffel Tower Construction Timelapse
Fortunately, this never happened:
[Images – and more – found here.]
Not Forgotten.
D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944
Memorial Day 1922
Updated to add video. More about the Lincoln Memorial dedication here.
May 4 1970 – Kent State University
Top: Steel plate sculpture in front of Taylor Hall, purported bullet hole visible.
Bottom: Taylor Hall, colorized via https://palette.fm/ . Sculpture was on opposite side of building, now demolished.
[Previous Kent State posts here.]
Tacky Raccoons 