22 Historical Photos That Prove How Much the World Has Changed

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School dance in the 1950s

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Parade of athletes, 1938

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Nonresident alien border ID, 1943

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Futuristic car design by Bob Riley

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Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the electronic television in 1929.

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A stewardess takes a cheetah for a walk at the Amsterdam airport in 1961.

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Atlas space station in 1958

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“NASA scientists pose with their board of calculations.”

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United Air Lines in 1930

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Here is Apple’s first product, invented by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

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“Contestants in the 1930 Miss Lovely Eyes beauty pageant in Florida are wearing masks to obscure the rest of their faces.”

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Wives and members of the Philadelphia Elks are at a gym exercise class in 1930.

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Getting a pilot’s license in the 1940s

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“Children sleep in the open air after lunch at a maternity hospital in Moscow in 1958.”

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First selfie, 1900

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An audience wearing special glasses watches a 3D “stereoscopic film” at the Telekinema on the South Bank in London during the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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Permanent-wave machine built by Icall, for sale in 1923

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Futuristic technologies from the past

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Atomic nuclear crater after nuclear testing

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Dancing classes in the Soviet Union

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Berlin in 1945 and today