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"
Snapshot
Here we look at snapshots in time as caught in photographs, paintings, maps and letters, investigating the history of the artefact and its meaning for us today.
1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour.
1949: The Chicago Theatre
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick
1924: The Death of Lenin
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
1900: Mulberry Street, New York
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
1902: Gliding Over Kill Devil Hills
On this day 121 years ago the Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, were having great success with their experiments in flight near Kitty Hawk Bay on the Outer Banks
1879: Frederick Douglass
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
