EVB2937567: Oil gusher at Signal Hill in California near the Long Beach, one of the most productive oil fields in the world. 1920s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937573: Loading an oil train in the Pennsylvania oil region. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937582: Windmills near Omsk, Siberia, in Imperial Russia Empire, 1885 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937597: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958), won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention and development of the cyclotron. c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937609: Rivers of cables for the Dawn supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2009 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937621: Satellite tracking antenna dish at Stanford University in Northern California, 2007 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937627: A hand cranked device onsisting of coiled metal wire and a magnet, demonstrates the principle elements of 19th and 20th century electrical generators, also called dynamos. Illustration from DYNAMO-ELECTRICITY, 1884 by George B. Prescott / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937642: Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer often worked in his canoe while boating in the upstate New York's Mohawk River / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937651: Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), inventor of the magnetic telegraph. Steel engraving by John Sartan / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937660: Office of the Underwood Typewriter Company in Washington, D.C., c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937669: A husband tunes the radio while his wife holds populist right-wing radio priest, Father Coughlin's newspaper SOCIAL JUSTICE, with a headline, STALIN ORDERS WORLD REVOLUTION. This comfortable middle class home was in Royal Oak, Michigan, where Father Coughlin was a priest. 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937696: Army nurses lighting up their cigarettes in 1947, when smoking was seen as a simple pleasure rather than a health hazard / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937473: Chief Justice Earl Warren is escorted through crowd of protestors carrying placards attacking the Supreme Court's 1963 ruling (Abington School District v. Schempp) to prohibit prayer in U.S. public schools / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937527: Students and their teacher watch educational television in a school library in Schenectady, New York, 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937530: New York City's Manhattan's skyline shrouded in darkness, is offset by the lights of a freighter at a Brooklyn pier. On November 9, 1965, the lights went out for 12 hours in the Northeast States and Canada / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937536: Electric lamps on display in a store in the Washington, D.C. area. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937542: Workmen pose for a group portrait on the giant turbine in the powerhouse of the Bonneville Dam. c. 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937584: Four workers riding on a large casing section of pipe suspended from cable as it is moved into position during construction (1933-42) of the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937599: Close-up of switches in the control room of Reactor B, the first large scale nuclear reactor ever built. Photo from the Hanford Site of the Manhattan Project, c. 1942-44 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937605: A model of Sputnik 1, International Geophysical Year, 1957 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937614: ECHO I, NASA's first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a Mylar balloon design. Launched in 1960, ECHO I expanded to a balloon with a 100 foot diameter that reflected radio transmissions from one ground station back to another / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937632: Thomas Edison with the engineers and technicians of his Menlo Mark workshop. Edison is under the central arch, leaning against the support with his hands in his pockets. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937638: Electrical outlets in an American home during World War II. The photo was released with the following conservation instructions: 'How to add years to the life of your electric cords: remove them gently but firmly from wall sockets. Don't pull or tug. When not in use, coil cord loosely around a hook.' 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937662: Early model of a Scoles and Glidden typewriter, with 18 keys. c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937668: John Frost and daughter listening to their radio, a luxury item in their modest home for a family of seven. Frost was the owner of a struggling farm in Northern California that produced milk, turkeys, and hogs. 1940 photograph by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937707: World War II. Announcing state of war with Germany, a British Newspaper man holding stack of newspapers and sign stating 'Special late news: War - Official,' in Whitehall, London on September 7, 1939, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937722: President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), in wheelchair at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver, following his serious heart attack on September 24, 1955. Against his doctors' advice, he successfully ran for a second term in 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937050: Convicted atomic spy Julius Rosenberg in a standing mug shot / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937056: John Scopes (1900-1970), a young lawyer and substitute teacher, in coordination with the ACLU, deliberately violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. His act triggered the famous Monkey Trial, or Scopes trial followed. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937086: Frank James, engraving from a photograph taken in March, 1882 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937101: Five cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, shooting pistols. July 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937110: Pro-choice Democrats protesting the anti-abortion candidate, Ellen McCormack, at the Democratic National Convention, New York City, July 14, 1976 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937122: Suffragists Catherine Flanagan (left) and Madeleine Watson (right) of the militant National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket the White House East Gate. Both were sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where they were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936919: Group of Italian-American school girls in New York City, c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936928: Homeward bound working men carrying their shovels and axes, on a winter evening on Mulberry Street, the Italian quarter of New York City, 1890 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936958: National Woman's Party suffrage protestor, Jessie Benton MacKaye, burns a speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Statue in Washington, D.C. September 16, 1918, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images