British soldiers carrying an inflatable decoy tank, post-WW2 (lemmy.world)
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1870s. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge has always been an icon. When its massive stone towers began rising in the early 1870s, photographers and illustrators began documenting what was considered the most daring and astounding engineering feat of the era....
Stand off between American and Soviet tanks in Berlin, 1961. (lemmy.world)
Quick wikipedia summary: Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a stand-off occurred between US and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie....
Secret service agents moments after the 1981 assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...
Two Imperial German sound locators for detecting airplanes, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915 (lemmy.world)
Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916 (lemmy.world)
American soldier inspecting a Nazi decoy tank, WW2, France, 1944 (lemmy.world)
You've heard of cars made to fly - prepare for an airplane made to drive! Light aircraft converted into a car, 1948 (lemmy.world)
1969 demonstrative photos of a NASA study on cats to help develop techniques for astronauts to re-orient in zero-G (lemmy.world)
Belgian refugees leaving Brussels with a dog pulling a cart, WW1, 1914 (lemmy.world)
US Navy Blimp after being downed during a nuclear test, 1957 (lemmy.world)
Soldiers at Fort Lee put on an all-male production of Clare Booth's all-female play "The Women" (i.imgur.com)
From LIFE Magazine, December 21, 1942
The first (coherent) underwater photo ever taken. 1899. (lemmy.world)
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Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years....
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....
Ship's Cat nestled inside a 6-inch gun, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
"Quaker guns" at Manassas Junction March 1862. (lemmy.world)
A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The...
Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)
The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....
Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912 (lemmy.world)
Elephant conscripted by the Imperial German Army to move logs, WW1, 1915 (lemmy.world)
Messenger dog with a spool for laying out telephone cable, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
Lounge of the R-100 airship, made for luxury passenger transport, 1929 (lemmy.world)
US Navy blimp protecting a convoy during WW2, 1943 (lemmy.world)
Pyramid of captured German helmets post-WW1, New York, USA, 1919 (lemmy.world)
