EVB2938016: William 'Big Bill' Haywood (1869-1928), was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an leader in the Socialist Party of Americ. In 1918 he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and fled to the Russian Soviet Republic for the remainder of his life, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938327: Ruth Nichols 1901-1960 wearing a fur parka in 1931 the year she set three records for women pilots the women's world altitude record of 28 743 feet women's world speed record of 210.7 miles per hour and women's distance record with a flight from Oakland California to Louisville Kentucky 1 977 miles. LC-USZ62-118076, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938375: Central Pacific Railroad's Bloomer Cut was 800 feet long and had sixty-three foot high walls. It was excavated with dynamite in the late 1860s during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Photo by Alfred A. Hart c. 1867. LC-DIG-stereo-1s00453_CROP / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938335: Harriet Quimby 1875-1912 in the Moisant monoplane in which she learned to fly. In 1911 she became the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States and was the first woman to fly across the English Channel April 16 1912. She died in a flying accident in July 1912. LC-USZ62-15070 / Bridgeman Images