AVE6328193: Europe, 1940s: men and women stand in derelict buildings / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328196: UNITED STATES: 1981: Birds flying as space shuttle lifts off. / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328199: UNITED STATES: 1981: Space shuttle travelling towards space after launch. / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328210: Europe, 1940s: man works cattle in field / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328812: United States, 1940s: Cartoon man against red brick wall / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328814: United States, 1940s: Shoes walking up steps / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328820: United States, 1940s: Two men on horses have conversation / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328901: United States, 1970s: man leaves house / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328902: United States, 1970s: car in driveway at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328932: United States, 1970s: girl sits at controls in small plane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328935: United States, 1970s: plane flies in sky over fields / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328936: United States, 1970s: car lights in rain at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328938: United States, 1970s: view of road through windscreen at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328942: United States, 1970s: side view as man drives car at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328951: United States, 1970s: Clouds over planet Earth / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328952: United States, 1970s: markings on road at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328957: United States, 1930s-1940s: A helmsman turns a helm to steer a ship / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328958: United States, 1930s-1940s: Large machinery on cargo ship pumps / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328963: United States, 1930s-1940s: A plant worker inspects the displays on a steam powered electricity generator / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328964: United States, 1970s: man and woman sit outside house / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328965: United States, 1970s: girl answers radio in plane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328967: United States, 1930s-1940s: An aerial shot of a dock on the River Rouge / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328968: United States, 1930s-1940s: A switchboard operator checks the display on his switchboard / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328975: United States, 1930s-1940s: A close-up of the opening of a smoke stack / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328985: United States, 1970s: tornado forms above ground / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328988: United States, 1930s-1940s: Crossfades show the piece-by-piece construction of a V8 engine block / Bridgeman Images

AVE6328991: United States, 1970s: tornado at night / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329000: United States, 1930s-1940s: A line of engine blocks runs through a machine that polishes the engines' cylinders / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329016: United States, 1960s: View of power drill / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329017: United States, 1960s: Hand sharpens knife on grinder / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329028: United States, 1930s-1940s: An open container, carrying molten iron, moves across a factory floor on a hanging track / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329032: United States, 1960s: Medium shot of golfer / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329038: United States, 1930s-1940s: Close up of a tapped furnace pouring molten metal into a large, open container / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329039: United States, 1930s-1940s: An open hearth worker places a lid on top of a large vat of molten metal / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329057: United States, 1930s-1940s: A crane arm lifts a white hot ingot out of an open hearth furnace and places it in the top of a rolling machine / Bridgeman Images

AVE6329061: United States, 1930s-1940s: A white hot ingot exits a roller on a rolling machine and then enters a second roller / Bridgeman Images