A 5MB Hard Drive, 1956 (sh.itjust.works)
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Armored rail train car from the US Civil War. (lemmy.world)
A drawing made during the war of another armored train car:...
Confederate submarine discovered by the US government in 1878. (lemmy.world)
Known as the “Bayou St. John submarine”, this vessel was discovered when the Bayou St. John, in New Orleans was dredged by the US Government in 1878. For years, the vessel was thought to be the Confederate submarine Pioneer, but research in the 20th century showed it was of a different design. There is no surviving...
Czechoslovakians celebrating the fall of the Soviet-backed regime after the Velvet Revolution, December 31, 1989
Traditional 'Chinampa' lake gardens and canals, Mexico, 1912 (media.kbin.social)
Aerial view of a beached U-Boat in the UK, WW1, 1919
German U-Boat washed ashore at Hastings, UK, WW1, 1919 (media.kbin.social)
British tanks overcoming trenches in the Battle of Cambrai, WW1, 1917
An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank (lemmy.world)
The M22 Locust was a 7.4 ton light tank. It held a turret mounted 37mm cannon and a coaxial M1919A6 machinegun. It was developed by the US at the request of the British military, and used by the British near the end of WW2....
Bust of Stalin defaced during the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia - placard reading "Nothing lasts forever", 1989
Parisians use chairs to navigate during a flood of the Seine, 1924
Union sentry standing guard at a bridge in East Tennessee, US Civil War, 1863 or 1864
Female IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973
British milkman making the rounds during the Blitz, WW2, 1940 (media.kbin.social)
One incredibly lucky British soldier showing a hole in his helmet, France, WW1, 1917 (media.kbin.social)
Color photo of bombing damage on a London street, WW2, 1943 (media.kbin.social)
Overturned street trolley during the Vaccine Revolt by antivaxxers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1904 (media.kbin.social)
Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958 (lemmy.world)
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A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976. (lemmy.world)
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NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher (lemmy.world)
USS Monitor (lemmy.world)
The USS Monitor was an ironclad warship used by the Union Navy during the US Civil War. It was a radical design that sat low on the waterline to present a very small target, and had a revolving turret rather than a broadside battery. The turret traversed with steam power, being about to make a full rotation in just under 23...
CSS Virginia (otherwise known as the Merrimack, Merrimac, or "Rebel Monster") (lemmy.world)
CSS Virginia was the first, but not last, steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. It was constructed from the original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. CSS Virginia famously took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the...