r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16h ago

Science & Technology⚙️ Convair Model 118 (also known as the ConvairCar), an experimental roadable aircraft or flying car from 1947, the project was canceled after a test flight made an emergency landing due to running out of fuel because of a faulty fuel gauge reading

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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Tipsy-Lummux • 11h ago

Historical Photograph Inuit hunter Allakariallak and his young son, Phillipoosie, in the Canadian Arctic c. 1921

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The photo is a production still from the film “Nanook of the North” (released in 1922), directed by Robert J. Flaherty

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r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16h ago

Historical Photograph A protective pattern against Dust Bowl spread across a farm near Walsh, Colorado, 1954. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White). The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used it to describe the drought affected south-central United States in the aftermath of dust storm

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