Nazi prisoners of war in Michigan, United States during World War II. The prisoners work with shovels during a road construction. They work in timber forests. A prisoner makes shoes on machines. The prisoners dine. They play chess and table tennis in a recreation room. They listen to a German band.
The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)
City trains in New York, United States. A couple, both dressed in white, walks on a railway platform. A sign on the platform reads ' Lackawanna railroad'. A steam locomotive pulls a passenger train into the station. A conductor assists as the couple boards the train. They wave from the train. The conductor helps passengers, including the woman in white and her escort, to get off the train. The man in white tips the conductor.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Women technicians adjust an early computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC. They talk while working. A woman technician at the controls and another woman instructs reading from a note book. Women load computer punch cards into card reading machines.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Wires come out of a control panel. Numbered Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) of the control panel glow. Technicians point to the glowing LEDs. A woman technician looks at a machine. A woman near a printing machine. She detaches a paper and takes it away.
Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand and talk in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC, their invention. A woman technician hands over paper results. Readings are taken from a meter on the control panel of the early computer (the first electronic, general purpose, programmable digital computer). A technician attaches equipment to a control panel. A woman works on a terminal interface while a man checks results using an abacus. Numbers are observed as they light on a display.
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