EVB2923969: IBM has developed an information system that provides immediate signature identification for banks. The bank teller (not shown) communicates the customer's the bank account number to the bookkeeping department (shown) who uses the IBM machine to locate that account's signature card. It is put under a television camera, which displays on a screen in the teller's booth. March 27, 1953 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923890: President John Kennedy urges 'self censorship' of news. Days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, he spoke to the American Newspaper and Publishers Association. He disclosed that costly revisions were required in satellite tracking systems because of technical information published by US newspapers. April 27, 1961 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923946: Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962 / Bridgeman Images