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1810:
Diving Dress
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Era:
1800s
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US National Archives
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1882:
Carmagnolle Diving Suit
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1911:
Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit
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1912:
Diving over the Eiffel Tower
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1935:
‘Glass Cooky Jar Becomes Diving Bell’
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1905:
Bulldogs in Fancy Dress
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c. 1850:
Ambrotype of an Ojibwa Man wearing western dress and snow goggles
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c.1740:
A Mantua Court Dress
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1940:
The Lightning Dress Creator
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1968:
The Universal Studios Paper Dress
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c. 1900:
Western man in traditional Japanese dress
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1974:
Sean Connery in a wedding dress
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c. 1920s:
Luisa Casati’s fountain dress
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1914:
Ceremonial Dress of the Kwakiutl and Nootka Tribes of British Columbia
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1930s:
The Zeppelin Dress
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1965:
Yuri Gagarin at a Cosmonaut fancy dress party, Star City
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1937:
Lamp shade dress
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1950s:
Women’s dress supports
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1916:
‘To dress extravagantly…’ poster
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1960s:
Yves Saint Laurent Wedding Dress
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1899:
Los Angeles’ first telephone pay station
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1919:
Demonstrating the Magnavox PA system
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1890s - 1920s:
Five-Fold photographs
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1887-1913:
Telephone tower, Stockholm
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c. 1865:
The Writing Ball
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1868:
Steam Robot
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1800 - 1899:
Optical Model of the Eye
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1879:
“Edison’s Anti-Gravitation Underclothing”, Punch
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1872:
“The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” by Charles Darwin
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c.1894:
Model of the Moon
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1899:
Nikola Tesla in his laboratory
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1883-1886:
Animals and Humans in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge
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1836:
Life on the Moon
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1884:
The Jull Centrifugal Snow Plough
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1860:
Transporting a Tree on a Wagon
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1876:
The Machinery Hall at the Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia