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EVB2923984: X-ray of bomb. An innocent appearing square package, which did not tick or rattle, was passed under a fluoroscope. It produced an x-ray showing three batteries, side by side; a transformer and wires leading to a cap attached to a two sticks of dynamite. There was a spring lock which would complete the circuit when the lid of the box was raised. Feb. 1932 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924083: An armed hijacker (left) watches as Turkish Airlines crew member employee assists a passenger who suffered a heart attack on the air liner at Sofia, Bulgaria. Members of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey threatened to blow up the plane and its passengers unless Turkey freed three guerrillas condemned to death. May 3, 1972 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924163: Woman holds tape with the latest stock prices printed by the Quotron II. It can recall on command the last quote of a given stock from the centers computing equipment in the background. This unit is at Scantlin Electronics Inc. 60 Broad Street office in NYC. Oct. 30, 1964 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929010: Taconic State Parkway, Shenandoah Service Station, the highway represents an important development in the evolution of American transportation planning. Constructed in 1931, conceived in the 1920s during America's parkway-building boom, photograph c.1990s, Poughkeepsie, New York / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929406: Los Angeles, Pan Pacific Auditorium, the structure achieves not just the styling of the great streamlined World's Fairs of the 1930's, but their festivity and sophistication as well. The entrance pylons are scaled to give the building an impressiveness beyond actual size. Burned to the ground in 1989, 1600 Beverly Boulevard, California, photograph 1980s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929497: World War II, First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America, Lee Ah Ding and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, try typical American food for the first time, Yee took a hot dog in stride, but Lee refused to have anything to do with this strange foreign food, New York, photograph by Edward Gruber, September 1942, Gruber, Edward L. (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929400: Los Angeles, 'Angels Flight', the last remaining cable railway in the City of Los Angeles. It is significant both because of this and because of its nature as a landmark, so designated by the Cultural Heritage Board of Los Angeles. Built ca 1901, Third & Hill Streets, California, photograph by Jack E. Boucher, c.1960s, Boucher, Jack E. (1931-2012) / Bridgeman Images