Frank Bernard Halford had been an aircraft engine designer since World War I. In 1923, he established himself as a for-hire consultant to…
Early in 1919, Montague Napier, President of D. Napier & Son Ltd., decided that his company should focus entirely on aircraft engines. The…
East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961. This is a photograph of an East German…
It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t…
Three days after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy obliterated Hiroshima, Japan, U.S. forces dropped an even more powerful weapon dubbed Fat Man…
The Hubble Space Telescope almost didn’t make it. Carried aloft in 1990 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, it was over-budget, years behind schedule…
Somewhere in the Sea of Tranquillity, the little depression in which Buzz Aldrin stood on the evening of July 20, 1969, is still…
The terrified young boy with his hands raised at the center of this image was one of nearly half a million Jews packed…
“Come on over, come on over!” (Komm’ rüber!) the West Berlin crowd on Bernauer Strasse chanted. Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph…
There’s no way of knowing how many pictures were taken of Anna Bertha Röntgen, and most are surely lost to history. But one…