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Columbia's First Launch. The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, launches with John Young and Bob Crippen, the first reusable spaceship.

No. 017 · Firsts

Columbia's First Launch

Source: NASA

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Barney Oldfield, Tacoma 1920. Oldfield was the first man to drive a car at 60 mph, and 'Who do you think you are, Barney Oldfield?' became what traffic cops said to speeders.

No. 168 · Garage and Speed

Barney Oldfield, Tacoma 1920

Photographed by Marvin Dement Boland

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Chuck Yeager and the X-1 Team. Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 with two cracked ribs from a horseback riding fall, which he hid from flight surgeons.

No. 186 · Wings

Chuck Yeager and the X-1 Team

Source: U.S. Air Force

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The Wright Flyer lifts off at Kill Devil Hills on December 17, 1903, Orville at the controls and Wilbur running alongside. Photograph by John T. Daniels.

No. 004 · Great Moments

First Flight

Photographed by John T. Daniels

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Hoover Dam from the air. Finished two years early in 1935, the dam holds enough concrete to pave a two-lane road from San Francisco to New York; its intake towers are crowned with Art Deco clocks for Nevada and Arizona time.

No. 200 · Las Vegas

Hoover Dam from the air

Photographed by Carol M. Highsmith

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Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927. The plane had no front window, since an extra fuel tank sat in the way, so Lindbergh used a periscope to see ahead.

No. 183 · Wings

Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927

Photographed by Harris & Ewing

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Motorcycle Police, July 4 1922. Montgomery County, Maryland's police force began on July 4, 1922 as a small mounted squad on motorcycles, the only way to catch the new wave of speeding motorists.

No. 170 · Garage and Speed

Motorcycle Police, July 4 1922

Photographed by Lewis Reed

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Navy carriers pass under the unfinished Golden Gate, 1936. Months before the bridge opened, the carriers USS Lexington and Saratoga steamed under its cables; the span was the world's longest suspension bridge until 1964.

No. 189 · San Francisco

Navy carriers pass under the unfinished Golden Gate, 1936

Source: U.S. Navy

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Navy Catalinas over the Golden Gate, 1937. Navy flying boats flew over the bridge in May 1937, the month it opened as the longest suspension span in the world.

No. 188 · Wings

Navy Catalinas over the Golden Gate, 1937

Source: U.S. Navy

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SR-71 Blackbird. The SR-71 leaked fuel on the runway because its titanium panels only sealed tight once they heated and expanded at Mach 3.

No. 187 · Wings

SR-71 Blackbird

Photographed by Judson Brohmer

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The Tuskegee Airmen. Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group, the Red Tails, in Ramitelli, Italy.

No. 028 · Famous Americans

The Tuskegee Airmen

Photographed by Toni Frissell

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Building the Panama Canal. A bird's-eye view of the giant Gatun Locks, the year before the first ship crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific in August 1914.

No. 024 · Firsts

Building the Panama Canal

Source: Library of Congress

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Freedom 7. Alan Shepard lifts off to become the first American in space, a 15-minute flight that started the race to the Moon.

No. 016 · Firsts

Freedom 7

Source: NASA

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Friendship 7. John Glenn rides an Atlas rocket off the pad to become the first American to orbit the Earth.

No. 015 · Firsts

Friendship 7

Source: NASA

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Icarus, High Above New York. Lewis Hine photographs a steelworker swinging on a cable a quarter mile above Manhattan as America's tallest skyscraper rises.

No. 025 · Famous Americans

Icarus, High Above New York

Photographed by Lewis Hine

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The Wright Flyer at Fort Myer. Orville Wright flies for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia, in the trials that produced the world's first military airplane.

No. 019 · Firsts

The Wright Flyer at Fort Myer

Source: NASA Great Images (GRIN) copy

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Tommy Milton, Indy 500 Winner 1921. Milton was the first man to win the Indianapolis 500 twice, and did it while nearly blind in one eye, a secret he kept for most of his career.

No. 169 · Garage and Speed

Tommy Milton, Indy 500 Winner 1921

Photographed by Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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