History in Pictures

ryanandthecrew:

German army soldiers - lighting a cigarette with a flamethrower

(via weirdvintage)

taxidermyextaordinaire:

In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden gave a lion he had killed to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion before, and this was the result

Cairo, 1928

River Nile, Egypt  c1900

pnxntdd:

cseszlovak:

imalwaysontheroad:

 

kötre

444, heló.

firsttimeuser:

Highlander, 1929 by Arkady Shaikhet

theblacklacedandy:

Oh my goodness this is lovely

(Source: doloresdepalabra, via allieinthemaze)

Soldier and Nurse

~1914-1918

Early mobile phone concept

illustration of a future mobile phone, 1908

In pre-radar days London had listening gear for detecting German bombers by listening for their engine noises. … This was a portable version.

Early aircraft listening device

“Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921.” Two giant horns with ear tubes, evidently designed to listen for approaching aircraft.

Deadwood, South Dakota, 1900

freakyfauna:

Ice-mask.
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.

Photo by Frank Hurley. Published in The home of the blizzard by Douglas Mawson, London (1915).

Found here.

(via theangelofhistory)

1950sunlimited:

Computer of 1958