EVB2937772: Interior room of the Electric Telegraph Office at Charing Cross, London. British telegraph equipment was based on the Cooke-Wheatstone patent, the clock-like devices along the walls, in which the receiver pointed to the letters on a dial, which spared operators the task of translating code / Bridgeman Images
EVB2944119: U.S. Marines in Nicaragua in 1932. Heavy Browning Machine Gun is mounted on a car in preparation for U.S. Supervision of the 1932 Presidential Election and Inauguration of Liberal President Juan Sacasas. In 1933, the Marines left, and National Guard Gen. Anastasio Somoza took over the government in 1936 through a corrupt election / Bridgeman Images
EVB2944370: USS Sealion picks up British and Australian survivors of Japanese prison ship Rakuyo Maru. USS Sealion and other U.S. submarines torpedoed the ship three days earlier. When the USS Sealion returned it rescued only 54 of the 1159 prisoners in the Luzon Strait. World War 2, Sept. 15, 1944 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937963: Four engine passenger plane of the Imperial Airways refueling from a Shell Oil Company mobile fuel tank at Semakh, in north Palestine in October 1931. Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long range air transport company, operating from 1924 to 1939 and serving parts of Europe and the extended British Empire / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938029: Founders of the Knights of Labor in 1886. Front Row: James S. Wright, portrait of Uriah S. Stevens, Robert W. Keen. Back row, L to R.: William Cook, R.C. Macaukey, James M. Hilsee, Joseph S. Kennedy. Seated left is James S. Wright, seated right is Robert W. Keen. 1886 by H.J. Skeffington / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946805: Prince Faisal l bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and King Farouk of Egypt. They dine at Ras el-Tin Palace in Alexandria following a meeting of the Arab League, April 9, 1946. Five of the nine resolutions passed in this Arab League session addressed actions to resist Jewish settlement in Palestine. / Bridgeman Images