ZUM4947975: Jan. 01, 1955 - Opening of the packaging exhibition. Mrs. Pandit at Indian Jute Mills stand.: The new High Commissioner for India - Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of the Indian Prime Minister - accompanied the Lord Privy Seal - Capt. TR. Hon. H. Crookshank M.P. when he opened the fourth National Packaging Exhibition at Olympic - this morning / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948047: Jan. 01, 1955 - Ushering in a New Era of transportation, the atomic powered submarine USS Naitilus, is pictured underway on her initial sea trial in Long Island Sound on January 17, 1955. The historic moment came at 11:01 a.m. when the Nautilus under nuclear power cast off and got underway from the Groton, Conn, dock of her builder, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamic Corporation. Public Health Relations Department, Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948143: Jan. 01, 1955 - Mr. Jean Salis flies channel in” Bleriot” replica. Waves to the crowds.: Fifty year old Frenchman M. Jean Salis landed at Ferryfield, near Lydd, Kent, last evening after flying from Calais in his replica of the machine used by M. Louis Bleriot 46 years ago. The 47 miles flight took 81 minutes / Bridgeman Images