The history of mankind is an endless series of amazing discoveries (19 photos)

History helps to correctly assess the events of past years and understand how our modern reality was formed. However, far from I always want to do this by remembering dry dates and an infinite number of names.





Fortunately, you can learn interesting and important historical facts and by another method - for example, by looking at curious photographs, which were carefully preserved for us by photographers of past years. In this case the learning process will be much faster and more exciting. We suggest you try to learn something new for yourself right now.

Photograph of an engineer making a connection to one of the first IBM computers, 1958



Fathers of the Church Council with their secretaries leave St. Peter's Basilica, 1962-1965





Actress Veronica Lake with her hair curled on a drill press, 1943



In the photo, the actress demonstrates the potential danger with which women may encounter in factories while working. in some sense, the snapshot is a warning that was supposed to reduce the number of accidents.

Fermilab hard drive, 1973



Men stand on a section of steel pipe for the Hoover Dam nearing completion, 1935.



The pipe fragment shown in the photo weighs 45 tons.

Alexander Colonna-Valevsky, Napoleon's illegitimate son, 1860



Titanic anchor chain by Hingley & Sons, 1909



Ashtrays and coin-operated TV chairs at the Los Angeles bus station, 1969



Lunch aboard a Scandinavian plane, 1969



Howard Carter, Arthur Callender and an Egyptian worker see Tutankhamun's sarcophagus for the first time, 1924



Traditional Rwandan hairstyle, 1923



Lumberjacks hold a saw on the trunk of a giant sequoia in California, 1917.



Apollo 1 crew practice landing on water, 1966



Yuri Gagarin pours himself a mug of beer while visiting the Karlsberg brewery in Copenhagen, 1962



Motorola engineer John Mitchell with his telephone on a New York street, 1973



Mitchell helped design the first mobile phone.

Wake-up woman raising workers to shift, 1940-1950



Before the first alarm clocks, in England and Ireland there was a profession of "wake-ups". These were the people who went early through the streets in the morning and woke up their customers until they were convinced that they are awake. The woman in the picture shoots peas through the window with homemade pea shooter.

Coca-Cola came to France, 1950



Color photograph of Thomas Edison examining his invention, the light bulb, 1911

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