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Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Step into the time machine

Visual cover versions Removing the black and white

1949 People arriving at the Chicago Theatre July 1947 Portrait of Art Hodes, Kaiser Marshall, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Williams and Cecil (Xavier) Scott May 25, 1946 Northrop’s XB–35 Flying Wing Bomber is wheeled onto the runway for its first taxi tests June 1944 Private Ware applies last-second make-up to Private Plaudo 1943 A Douglas SBD ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber balanced on its nose after crash-landing on a carrier flight deck 1942 Members of the US Signal Corps at the Taj Mahal in protective bamboo scaffolding 1942 Grandfather of Japanese ancestry teaching his grandson to walk at Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center July 1939 Country store on dirt road, Sunday afternoon 1938 Young boy in a Baltimore slum area, Maryland 1937 Children’s Pioneers defense drill, Leningrad 1936 Florence Thompson with one of her children as part of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ series 1936 August Landmesser refuses to salute at a Nazi rally, Germany 1935 Robert Johnson, blues singer and guitarist 1935 Officials ride in one of the penstock pipes of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam July 16, 1934 The Golden Gate Bridge under construction 1933 A ‘Hooverville’ shantytown in Central Park, New York 1932 The Dynasphere being tested on the beach at Weston-super-Mare by Mr. J. A. Purves of Taunton, who invented the machine with his son May 31, 1932 At Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum and another sculptor hang from the forehead of George Washington c. 1930 An overhead view of people on 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, in the heart of the Garment District, New York 1930s A Confederate and a Union veteran play cards at a Civil War reunion October 19, 1929 Passengers surveying the scene from the verandah deck of the British Airship R100 1929 The HM Airship R100 nears completion at the Royal Naval Air Service Air Station near Howden in Yorkshire 1928 Looking down Glasshouse Street to the junction with Sherwood Street and towards the lights of Piccadilly Circus in London December 28, 1928 A cameraman and a sound technician record the roar of Leo the Lion for MGM’s famous movie ident 1926 A flock of sheep walking along the Kingsway in London March 28, 1925 Sakura cherry blossom, Potomac Park, Washington DC June 26, 1925 A female Native American telephone switchboard operator 1924 The ‘Hollywoodland’ sign in Los Angeles, later changed to read ‘Hollywood’ July 1923 A punt gun, used to shoot flocks of waterbirds from a punt 1922 The contents of the central coffin of Tutankhamun’s tomb September 7, 1921 Margaret Gorman, the newly crowned Miss America, awaits the arrival of Neptune in her royal robes at the opening of the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant 1921 Sound amplifiers at Bolling Field Air Force Base, Washington DC c. 1920 A view of a trilithon being re-erected at Stonehenge 1920 Power house mechanic working on steam pump 1919 Soldiers of the 369th ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ wearing the Cross of War medal pose for a photo on their trip back to New York 1918 The control room of a U–boat looking aft, starboard side November 7, 1918 Celebrations on Wall Street, New York, following the surrender of Germany 1918 The interior of Amiens Cathedral with sandbag reinforcements against shell damage 1918 Airmen and sailors cheering the King from the aircraft carrier Argus, on his visit to the Fleet at Rosyth, Scotland. The carrier is painted in ‘dazzle’ camouflage 1918 A pilot smiles for the camera, Kelly Field, San Antonio 1918 A dirigible catches fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 1917 The USS Recruit, a wooden battleship built by the navy in Union Square, New York City, to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds from 1917 to 1920 1917 ‘Jammie’ Reynolds, daredevil 1917 Soldiers of the 164th Depot Brigade form a service flag at Fort Riley in Kansas 1916 A wounded British soldier holding his steel helmet, which has been pierced by a piece of shrapnel, during the advance on the Somme front near Hamel May 21, 1914 Emmeline Pankhurst being removed from a suffragette protest by a policeman April 15, 1913 A zebra and trap and a London tram vie for business in Brixton 1912 Hairdresser’s shop window, Boulevard de Strasbourg (Salon de Coiffures) c. 1912 A young woman uses a hand-cranked battery charger to power her electric Columbia Mark 68 Victoria automobile 1912 The iceberg that sank the Titanic 1911 Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic. The Terra Nova is in the background August 5, 1910 The Princess May, wrecked in Alaska c. 1910 Father and son snapshots 1910 11 a.m. Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. 1909 Louis Blériot leaving Calais, France 1908 Trapper boy, Turkey Knob Mine 1906 San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship 2,000 feet (600 meters) above San Francisco Bay, overlooking waterfront. Sunset over Golden Gate. 1905 The Empire State Express (New York Central Railroad) passing through Washington Street, New York c. 1905 Pulling out of the clearcut c. 1905 On the springboards and in the undercut: a Washington lumberjack and his daughters, in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington c. 1904 A ride at Coney Island’s Luna Park October 16, 1903 Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife, Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is standing in a tetrahedral kite 1902 Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill 1902 The Cliff House Hotel, San Francisco c. 1902 The Flatiron Building under construction, New York 1900s Ellis Island immigrants 1900 Patrons enjoying a ballet at the outdoor theater of the Moulin Rouge, Paris 1900 Mulberry Street, Manhattan c. 1897 Portrait of an unidentified man 1896 The ‘Street of Gamblers’, Chinatown, San Francisco October 22, 1895 Train wreck at Montparnasse, Paris c. 1895 Man portraying Santa Claus in snowy scene 1890s A group of Victorian tourists visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens 1889 Construction of Tower Bridge, London June 1889 A tree pierces a house in the Johnstown flood calamity, Pennsylvania July 1888 The Eiffel Tower under construction, Paris 1887 A study in human locomotion 1887 A fisherman at home, Norfolk 1885 Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill 1885 A ‘Mrs Frampton’ combing her long hair with the help of a mirror 1882 Workers build the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s workshop, Paris 1880s The bell tower of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica under construction on the Montmartre Hill, Paris c. 1880s Guides help a visitor to climb the Great Pyramid, Egypt c. 1880 Mugshots of inmates at Wormwood Scrubs prison, London 1877 British recruiting sergeants at Westminster, London 1875 A man sells mummies and other grave goods, Egypt c. 1870 A ‘female samurai’ or Onna-bugeisha (‘female martial artist’) July 7, 1865 The hanging of the conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln 1865 A Turkestan Krai Jew c. 1865 A portrait of Virginia Oldoïni, Countess of Castiglione 1865 A group of top-hatted men in front of the construction of the British ship Tanjore 1864 Jesse James c. 1864 An unidentified African-American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters, Maryland 1864 A Union soldier guards a slave auction house on Whitehall Street, Atlanta 1863 Confederate prisoners at Seminary Ridge during the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania c. 1858 Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars 1858 Alice Lidell, the ‘real’ Alice in Wonderland, aged six 1855 General Sir George de Lacy Evans, Commander of the British Army 2nd Division during the Crimean War c. 1850s Californian miners have a group portrait 1846 A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, without a beard, aged thirty-seven 1844 Construction of Nelson‘s Column, Trafalgar Square, London 1839 The first photographic self--portrait Building the time machine Retronaut and Jordan J. Lloyd Acknowledgements Index About the authors Chronicle Ebooks

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