AVE6326142: 1980s: Jetliner takes off from runway / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326159: 1980s: Bi-plane dusts field of crops / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326162: 1980s: Model plane in wind tunnel / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326177: 1980s: Man stands in front of airplane and computer monitor, talking, while pointing at monitor / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326052: United States, 1950s: Scientist opens lead vault / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326070: United States, 1950s: Man inserts part into cyclotron / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326082: Man walks Lady to Her House Along Railway Tracks / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326091: United States, 1950s: Aerial view of target / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326151: 1980s: Bi-plane dusts field of crops / Bridgeman Images

AVE6325973: United States, 1940s: Exterior of house / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326054: United States, 1950s: Men load equipment onto airplane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326057: United States, 1950s: Hand writes math equations on paper / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326084: Lady Consoles Man / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326106: Lady Faints as Man Rushes to her Aid / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326112: United States, 1950s: Views of nuclear blast / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326115: Lady Has an Idea as Men Try to Break in to her Office / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326134: United States, 1950s: Views of destruction caused during nuclear blast / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326140: 1980s: Jetliner taxis on runway at airport / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326146: 1980s: Several men work on wing of airplane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326150: 1980s: Hand dumps powder into wing of plane, then opens tube on underside of plane for powder to come out / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326175: 1980s: Airplane does a turn in the air / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326187: 1980s: Pilot climbs into X-15 jet / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326190: 1980s: X-15 is carried through air by jet plane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6326193: 1980s: Space Shuttle flies through air / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327173: United States, 1960s: Man looks through binoculars from bridge of ship / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327176: United States, 1960s: low level plane flies over Cuba / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327209: United States, 1940s: Dissolve to close up of ship guns / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327212: 1940s: Man rides horse up to building, dismounts / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327221: United States, 1940s: Aerial view of smoke trail from plane / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327242: United States, 1940s: Japanese soldiers on carrier run to planes / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327245: United States, 1940s: Close up of propeller / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327278: United States, 1940s: Aerial view of Pearl Harbor being bombed / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327281: United States, 1940s: Soldiers running, man on ground / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327302: United States, 1940s: Views of ship guns firing / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327399: United States, 1950s: Wipers clearing rain from windscreen of car / Bridgeman Images

AVE6327423: 1950s: Painting of men, women on horseback and foot with guns / Bridgeman Images