1950: Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"
North America
A collection of 35 Posts
1949: The Chicago Theatre
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick
1900: Mulberry Street, New York
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
A Blacksmith in Illinois
Bert Wikle was a member of the German-American Community in the early twentieth century
Harry Clifton and Brideshead’s Sebastian Flyte
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction
'Rigid Airships Were a Bad Idea' with S.C. Gwynne
The feats and follies of the airship era, on board the world’s largest flying machine
1879: Frederick Douglass
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
The World’s Biggest Prison in the Middle of Nowhere
Nick Guyatt explores an 19th century tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison