EVB2937944: Deaf-mute girls sewing and darning in a training school in Sulphur, Oklahoma. April 1917 photo by Lewis Hine, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937953: Title page from the December 1845 issue of THE LOWELL OFFERING, a magazine written and published by the young women working in the Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was a custom built mill town, with company owned boarding houses for its female employees who made to a month / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937965: Lagonda Agricultural Works, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, Warder, Brokaw & Child, c.1859 (chromolithograph), Forbes, Edwin Austin (1839-95) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937968: Boys learn carpentry in an open air summer school in Chicago in 1917 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938004: ESSO Gasoline dealer sign on Chestnut St. in Philadelphia in 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938010: Ann Burlak (1911-2002), self-proclaimed communist revolutionary, leaving a striker's rally with reporters after she was refused permission to speak. Fall River, Massachusetts, 1934 / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938031: Eugene Debs (1855-1926) ran for U.S. President as the Socialist Party's candidate in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, the last time from his prison cell. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938034: Labor leaders John Mitchell and Samuel Gompers were convicted of violating an injunction restraining a boycott during the 1906 strike against the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Their conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937217: Mrs. Rose O’Neal Greenhow (1814-1864)(with her daughter), Confederate Spy during the U.S. Civil War, imprisoned at old Capitol. She was exiled to the South and greeted as a heroine. She died on a mission to smuggle gold through the Union blockade in 1864, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937180: Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang of train robbers in portrait taken in Fort Worth, Texas in 1901. Left to right, seated: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy. Standing- Will Carver, alias News Carver and Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry. Paul Neuman and Robert Redford starred in the 1967 film, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937210: FBI scientists applied technology in criminal investigations. c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937283: Cossacks attacking a baggage train in Imperial Russia. Cossacks participated in peasant revolts in Ukraine and Russia until they were incorporated into the Russian armies in the 19th century. Watercolor by George Hand Wright (1878-1951) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937234: Stone Court. United States Supreme Court group portrait. Center front is Chief Justice Harlan Stone. c. 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937298: The Inquisitor-General, Tomás de Torquemada (1420-1492), appealed to Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to refuse all ransoms offered by wealthy Jews to avoid expulsion from Spain by comparing such ransoms with the thirty pieces of silver Judas Iscariot received for betraying Christ. 1492 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937340: Henry Isenberg, chief microbiologist, examines a specimen of sperm at the Long Island Jewish Hospital Infertility Clinic in 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937349: Dr. Albert Sabin (1906-1993), holding vial containing a live-virus vaccine for polio he developed to supplement, and ultimately replace, Jonas Salk's killed virus vaccine. 1959 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937318: J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) American banker and financier. He provided capital to the steel and electric industries and acted as U.S. central banker during the Panic of 1907 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937370: Doctor performs a Rubin test, at the infertility clinic at Long Island Jewish Hospital. The test detected fallopian tube blockages and is now replaced by laparoscopy. 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937330: Textile workers displaying picket signs pinned on their backs during Labor Day demonstration in Gastonia, N.C. 1934 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937336: Helen Keller (1880-1968), at left, with her teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan in 1893. Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft portrayed Keller and Sullivan in the stage and film versions of THE MIRACLE WORKER (1959-1962) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937363: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, wearing the Distinguished Federal Civilian Service medal awarded to her for preventing U.S. distribution of the sedative Thalidomide, which caused thousands of severe birth defects in Europe. August 8, 1962 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937408: A laughing crowd accompany a man dressed in a 'Martian' costume crossing a street in Mid-town Manhattan on November 6, 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937429: Young Japanese-Americans dancing at the Fresno, California, Assembly Center in 1942. Assembly centers were the initial organizing points, from which internees were taken to the relocation camps that would be their homes for the duration of World War II / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937432: Under armed guard, parentless children and a pastor sit in the back of truck for their evacuation from Bainbridge Island, during the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. The orphans were interned at Manzanar's 'Children's Village,' the only orphanage in internment camps, to which 100 children from Alaska to San Diego were sent for the duration of the war. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937463: Joe Louis and Max Schmeling mock box with each other while wearing white shirts and ties, Chicago. They were iconic rivals in the 1930's, but formed a strong friendship in the post war years / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937502: Twelve-man jury that convicted Al Capone for income tax evasion in 1931. This jury, substituting one Capone tampered with, was made up of men from outside Chicago including a retired hardware dealer, a country storekeeper and a farmer. Capone was sentenced to a total of 11 years in a federal penitentiary / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937562: The original 1859 Drake oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the 1st ever drilled in the U.S / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937598: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958), at the 10 inch Cyclotron at Berkeley. He won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention and development of the cyclotron. c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937604: Artist's conception of the solar powered GLAST (Gamma Ray Large Area Satellite) satellite orbiting earth in 2008. GLAST studies extreme events that cause high-energy gamma ray bursts, such as flaring of galaxies driven by black holes within their cores / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937613: The Horn reflector antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, was built for NASA ECHO I communication satellites. The antenna was 50 feet in length and was used to detect radio waves that bounced off ECHO I balloon satellites. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937619: 50-foot dish antenna at Kennedy Space Center in 2006, is a radar antenna used to track space vehicles and rockets / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937643: Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer at his desk at the General Electric Company c. 1910. His work contributed to the adoption of alternating electric current as the transmission standard for the 20th century electricity. Ca, 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937667: radio broadcasting towers, Washington DC, 1910-20 (photo), American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937676: Anthropomorphic robot capable of simulating human movements and bio-physiological responses, such as the ability to sweat. The robot was built to test protective clothing used in industrial and hazardous environments. 1988 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937691: Mrs. Bess Houdini, widow of the great magician, sitting in a chair with her business manager, Edward Saint (to her left holding handcuffs), and others, during a seance, in an effort to contact the spirit of Harry Houdini. 1936 / Bridgeman Images