EVB2937514: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), underworld financier who built gambling casinos in Cuba and Las Vegas in 1958. He inspired movie characters: Hyman Roth, portrayed by Lee Strasberg in GODFATHER II, and Max Bercovicz, by James Woods ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERIc. He was portrayed by Ben Kingsly in BUGSY, Dustin Hoffman in THE LOST CITY, and Patrick Dempsey in MOBSTERS / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937541: Electrical generators in Edison Sault Power Plant at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan were powered by the 21 foot drop of Saint Mary's River between Lakes Superior and Huron. The power plant was the longest in the world in 1902 and it's generating power was exceeded only by the Niagara Falls works / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937592: Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988), American physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for the discovery of many subatomic particles. Working with his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he applied nuclear physics to help develop the theory that an asteroid strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs. c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937682: American television inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth testified to a Congressional committee about the difficulties in getting patents. Farnsworth is seated between George Everson, Secretary of Farnsworth Television, Inc. and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce. January 1939 / Bridgeman Images