Globe manufacturing has come a long way since the early 20th
century when globes were painstakingly crafted by hand.
In 1933, the process involved carving wooden spheres and
meticulously painting maps of the world onto strips of paper,
which were then painstakingly attached to the globes (above).
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A 1930’s Art Deco world globe.
The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot (above) depicts our
planet as a nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size
of a pixel.
On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,
the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and
snapped the first-ever pictures of the planets from its perch at
that time beyond Neptune. This is the last image Voyager 1 ever
beamed back after which the cameras were turned off to save
power and memory.
Artist impression of Voyager-1.
1949
Elvis with his new Harley Davidson in 1956.
The motorcycle was a classic black-and-chrome beauty that
perfectly matched his signature style. As he rode around town
on it, heads turned and people stopped to take pictures.
