20 vintage photos of products that show how far we've come in the last 100 years

The 20th century saw some of the greatest inventions in history that have shaped our everyday lives. Here's just a sampling ...
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Marion O'Brien Donovan Papers

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Correspondence, patents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and subject files about various inventors and ideas. Collection documents women ...
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The Past Half Century of Engineering--And a Look Forward: Summary of a Forum

Robert Lucky’s mother was born in 1902 and died in 1998. She grew up on a farm in Virginia with no electricity, no radio, and no telephone. Yet she lived to see a man walk on the moon and the rise of ...
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The most popular junk food from every decade of the 20th century

Weird History Food is taking you on a Junk Food trip, through each decade, to see what were the most popular foods and snacks. The most impressive aspect of junk food developed throughout the 20th ...