1902 Still photo of glider made by Wright brothers in which they used wing warping technique for balance in flight. 1903 Still photograph of Orville Wright's first flight and plane on the ground. 1908 Newspaper headline and front page story of Wilber Wright's flights in France along with pictures. Wilbur Wright works on a transporting wheel of his plane in France. Horse tows plane across a field in France.
Escape artist and stage magician Harry Houdini performs. Huge crowd watches police buckle Harry Houdini into a straitjacket. Harry Houdini, upside down and wearing a straitjacket, being hoisted by a crane four stories above the ground. Harry Houdini escaping from straitjacket and throwing it to the ground. At a Paris theater, three men tie Harry Houdini to a chair. A gendarme sits beside Harry Houdini as he watches. Harry Houdini struggles to free himself, falls with his chair, and manages to undo his rope. Harry Houdini covers the head of the gendarme with coat, ties rope around gendarme’s neck and to the chair.
Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. A horse race in the United States in the year 1902. The horse race begins. Buildings in the background. A large crowd of spectators seated in the stands. They cheer for the riders.
Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. A unique race in the United States in the year 1902. A race between an elephant, a bicycle, a camel, a horse and an automobile. Buildings in the background.
Vietnamese people carrying objects on poles walk slowly along a pathway leading to a substantial house in walled compound with hills in background. A painted portrait of 19th Century Vietnamese nationalist, Phan Dinh Phung. Three Vietnamese men plowing rice paddy, manually with bamboo pole over shoulders of two who pull plow. Group of men pose for photograph wearing small ladder-like wooden collars over their heads. View of French Prison walls, and watch towers. Francois Pierre Rodier, French Governor-General of Cochinchina from 1902-1906. (World War II period).
Conflict between Imperial Russian forces and Bolsheviks in time frame of Russian Civil War and World War 1. Map shows area around Samara (Camapa) Russia, on the East bank of the Volga River. Imperial Russian soldiers run ashore from a Russian Navy boat on the river bank. An Imperial Navy Jack (flag) is seen on a docked long boat manned by Russian sailors. Next scene shows Imperial Russian soldiers aboard two open rail cars, pushed by a locomotive. They have armed the cars with a 76.2 mm divisional gun model 1902 field artillery piece and other smaller arms. They have a shelter built on one of the cars.
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