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2 1 George Grantham Bain The Dictograph: An Electronic Eavesdropping Device - The Unseen Listener to Secret Conversations 1911 6 x 4 $800 2 Kadel & Herbert The Ascent of the Balloon Grandenwitz Accompanied by and Under Control of Aeroplane 1925 6.5 x 4.75 $800 3 Anonymous Charles Lindbergh, airmail ace, comes out of the west and flies alone to Paris in record time 1927 7.25 x 9.5
3 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Robert van de Graaff designs the giant electrostatic generator. The machine will be used to split atoms. 1933 8.5 x 6.75 5 Sovfoto Russia boasts that she owns the smallest electrical motor ever built 1935 6 x 7.25 $750 6 Acme Newspictures Robot Bank Teller: The Recordak, mechanical bank teller which receives deposits of checks and records them photographically. 1937 6.5 x 8.5 $750
4 7 NBC Photo NBC & RCA Experiment in American Television Transmitted from a Television Station Covers a Radius of Fifty Miles in the Metropolitan Area 1937 7.5 x 9.25 $3,500 8 NBC Photo Television Launched: The First Broadcast Aired, David Sarnoff Announcing The birth in this country of a new art at the 1939 World s Fair April 27, 1939 10.25 x 7.25 $3,500
5 9 University of Minnesota Scientific Discovery May Revolutionize the World: Dr. Alfred Nier Isolated the Natural Radio-Active Substance U-235 Which Explodes with a Force 30,000,000 Times that of TNT 1940 7.5 x 5.5 $1,500 10 Anonymous Press Photo 4 Million Volt Atom Smasher: Professor R. G. Herb Shown Inside July 26, 1945 9.75 x 7.5 11 US Navy Photo The Highest Aerial Photograph Ever Taken: Made from a V2 Rocket, Showing the Earth s Curvature 1947 8.25 x 6.5 $1,200
6 12 Bell Telephone Laboratories A means for endowing modern computers, or thinking machines, with a whole new faculty - the ability not only to detect their own mistakes but actually to correct them - has been developed... The discovery is regarded as one of the most important and fundamental advances in computer techniques since the development of these powerful scientific tools. 1950 7.5 x 9.5 $800 13 General Electric Company Sound Waves With a Frequency of Nearly 3,000,000 Cycles Per Second. This Solid Column of Water Conducts the Ultra-Sonic Waves. Taken with a High Speed Photo-Flash. 1949 7.75 x 9.5 14 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Test windows used by Pittsburgh Plate were glazed with Flexseal Bomb Glass in the upper right and lower left sections and double strength window glass in the other two sections. The window glass was blown to bits but the bomb glass opened on pattern, remaining intact. 1951 9.5 x 7.5 $800
7 15 Bell Telephone Laboratories The pattern of sound waves, photographed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The technique is expected to provide a highly useful means for studying the sound wave field and microwave radio patterns. 1950 6.75 x 9.5 16 Acme Newspictures A new electronic device that permits putting moving pictures on tape. 1951 5.5 x 8.5 17 Bell Telephone Laboratories Bell Telephone Laboratories new ultra high-frequency transistor, much smaller than a man s fingernail, can increase an original electrical impulse a thousand-fold. Scientists foresee the use of the device in the family TV set, the transcontinental radio relay system, portable radio sets, submarine telephone and television cables. 1954 7.75 x 9.5
8 18 United Press Photo Atomic Clock: The world s most accurate timing device invented at Columbia University by Professor Charles H. Townes with the assistance of Dr. J. P. Gordon. Called the MASER (short for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). 1955 6.5 x 8.5 19 Bell Telephone Laboratories TRADIC, a new digital computer developed for the U.S. Air Force by Bell Telephone Laboratories, contains nearly 800 transistors instead of vacuum tubes. Transistors, completely cold, high efficient amplifying devices, enable the machine to operate on less than 100 watts - one-twentieth of the power needed by comparable vacuum tube computers. 1955 8 x 6.75 20 Bell Telephone Laboratories The laboratory model of TRADIC, Bell Telephone Laboratories new electronic brain, can provide answers to trigonometric problems with a series of dots on an Oscilloscope. The dots of light move so rapidly that they actually appear to draw geometric diagrams on the scope. J. H. Felker, project engineer, operates the oscilloscope. 1955 7.5 x 7.75
9 21 RCA Corporation New Hear-See Tape Player Announced by RCA: The new instrument can play pre-recorded black-and-white television selections from magnetic tape through any standard television receiver. 1956 7.5 x 8.5 22 Electrolux Corporation Cleaning via Brain : When the dust bag is full the brain simply makes one end of the machine pop open and it won t operate again until a fresh bag is inserted. 1956 8.25 x 6.75 23 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Scientists have taken a major step toward automatic manufacture of transistors and related semi-conductor devices 1959 7.75 x 9.5 $800
10 24 Illinois Institute of Technology The First Sun Powered Battery Operated Auto: Invented by Charles Escoffery, Developer of the Silicon Cell Panel 1960 9.5 x 8.25 $1,500 25 Bell Telephone Laboratories Fiber Optics Innovation: Donald R. Herriot of Bell Telephone Laboratories inspects vital element of new optical gas maser. This tube, containing neon and helium, is source of continuous stream of coherent light which may one day carry vast numbers of simultaneous telephone conversations and television programs 1961 7.75 x 9.75 26 Bell Telephone Laboratories Evolution of a Satellite: Satellite engineers John W. West, left, and Leif Rongved study the problems of satellite structure, surrounded by various developmental models of satellites. The structure held by Mr. Rongved is a frame for attaching electronic equipment inside the satellite. Their work is part of a program to develop long lasting satellites to relay communications across the oceans for ten years or more 1961 9.75 x 7.5 $1,500
11 27 RCA Semiconductor & Material Division The tiny device at left is a multiple silicon switching diode, which has been developed by the RCA Semiconductor and Materials Division in Somerville, N.J., to help simplify computer design and manufacturing. 1961 8.25 x 6.5 28 Penn State University The World s First Clear Photo of Atoms: Made Possible by Dr. Erwin Muller, Inventor of the World s Most Powerful Microscope 1962 9 x 7.5 $1,500 29 Newspaper Division Field Enterprises, Inc. Chicago s first simulated phone call via outer space...by Telstar satellite 1962 9.25 x 7.5
12 30 Allegheny Steel Press Department Moly Permalloy, a high permeability nickel alloy, is helping to assure correct answers from computing machines. 1962 9.25 x 7.5 $800 31 Bell Telephone Laboratories Now you can carry your telephone with you: Model of the portable telephone is being used here by C. E. Paul of Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey c. 1967 10 x 8 32 Bell Telephone Laboratories Experimental Memory Device for Computers: The Latest in Style for the Storing of 64 Words of 30 Bits Per Word 1963 9.5 x 7.5
13 33 IBM An example of why people are being displaced by automation is provided by this IBM 1460 Data Processing System. It can whip out 1,100 lines of information in one minute 1964 9.5 x 7.5 34 Houston Methodist Hospital This is the power unit for the artificial heart which is keeping 65-year-old Marcel DeRudder alive. A team of heart specialists headed by Dr. Michael DeBakey inserted the artificial heart into DeRudder during 5 hours of surgery 4/21 at Houston s Methodist Hospital. 1966 8.25 x 5.75 35 Texas Heart Institute The hands of Domingo Liotta hold the artificial heart that he was primarily responsible for developing. Made of silicone plastic and dacron, it is about the size of a human heart. Dr. Liotta has implanted one in the chest of a patient, and has three more ready to use. 1969 7.75 x 9.5
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