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[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the ground, covering a distance of about 14.2 miles in 25 minutes and 5 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the grou...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

For a few seconds Monsieur Jacques smoked on --

For a few seconds Monsieur Jacques smoked on --

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[TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECONDS TO MAKE THEIR PICTURES AS HE BEGAN HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE ABA CONVENTION]

[TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECOND...

A couple of men standing on top of a train. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert faite a Paris dans le parterre du Jardin royal des Thuilleries le I. decembre 1783. Vue prise du Pont Royal.

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... More

[Distant view of the Wright airplane just after landing, taken from the starting point, with wing-rest in center of picture and launching rail at right. This flight, the fourth and final of December 17, 1903, was the longest: 852 feet covered in 59 seconds.]

[Distant view of the Wright airplane just after landing, taken from th...

Title based on reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 57. Attributed to Wilbur and/... More

Pacing horse "Billy Boyce" of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y. Aug 1st 1868 pacing the last half mile in the second heat in 1 minute 5 1/4 seconds and the third heat one mile in the fastest time on record 2:14 1/4

Pacing horse "Billy Boyce" of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y...

Artist: Thomas Worth and John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5072

[Flight 29: machine close to the ground, Orville piloting, covering a distance of 640 feet in 15 seconds; Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 29: machine close to the ground, Orville piloting, covering a ...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECONDS TO MAKE THEIR PICTURES AS HE BEGAN HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE ABA CONVENTION

TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECONDS...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Installing the power plant is a ticklish operation. These workers are lowering a 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engine into an M-3 tank and they are taking care to insure that each fitting and connection may be made within a few seconds after the motor has been placed in the tank. These twenty-eight ton giants

Chrysler tank arsenal. Installing the power plant is a ticklish operat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An important factor in road building steam plow loading a cart in fifteen seconds, Colorado

An important factor in road building steam plow loading a cart in fift...

Stereograph showing men on stem plow loading supplies into horse-drawn wagons. H114074 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by Keystone View Company. No. 14248.

Pacing horse "Billy Boyce" of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y. Aug 1st 1868 pacing the last half mile in the second heat in 1 minute 5 1/4 seconds and the third heat one mile in the fastest time on record 2:14 1/4

Pacing horse "Billy Boyce" of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y...

Artist: Thomas Worth and John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5072

[Flight 85: Orville in flight over treetops, covering a distance of approximately 1,760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 85: Orville in flight over treetops, covering a distance of ap...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in the Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Clamps are put in place; wrench applied to loosen pipe; mud spurting out as the sections of pipe are loosened; freed is moved over to rat hole; lower end of traveling block is attached to pipe in rat hole by means of rope operated off winch. This entire operation takes from twenty to thirty seconds

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in the Seminole oil field...

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The king of the road: Dexter driven by his owner Mr. Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger at Prospect Park Brooklyn August 31st 1869, trotting a mile to a road wagon. weighing with driver 319 lbs. in the unprecedented time of 2 minutes 21 3/4 seconds

The king of the road: Dexter driven by his owner Mr. Robert Bonner of ...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3601

[First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North C...

Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. ... More

May 1904 Japan seconds army preoccupation Furanten, China, and is picture to breaking the iron bridge every place

May 1904 Japan seconds army preoccupation Furanten, China, and is pict...

Print shows the Japanese Second Army destroying a bridge at Pu-lan-tien during the Russo-Japanese war. From series: Memorial Picture for the victory in the Russo-Japanese War.

[Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville at the controls, making two complete circles of the field at Huffman Prairie in 2 minutes and 45 seconds; Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Anarchists - casualties of anarchist riot, Union Square] Taken 20 seconds after bomb thrown.

[Anarchists - casualties of anarchist riot, Union Square] Taken 20 sec...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sheet metal plane parts, previously cut on a router are pressed to all the required shapes on Masonite dies in a 3,000 ton hydraulic press in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Four crews of girls, one at each side, feed and operate the press. The actual forming operation takes only about ten seconds. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sheet metal plane parts, pr...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just come out of the gas chamber filled with tear gas after having been in there several seconds without a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just co...

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[First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North C...

Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. ... More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert faite a Paris dans le parterre du Jardin royal des Thuilleries le I. decembre 1783. Vue prise du Pont Royal / / Prevost fecit.

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... More

[Flight 82: Wilbur piloting at a considerable height, flying a distance of 2 3/4 miles in 5 minutes and 4 seconds, almost four circles of the field at Huffman Prairie, the best and longest flight of the year; Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 82: Wilbur piloting at a considerable height, flying a distanc...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Flash-cooking process used in preparing grapefruit juice for canning. Temperature is carried to 180 degrees, and is attained in a few seconds, thus retaining much of the original flavor. Weslaco, Texas

Flash-cooking process used in preparing grapefruit juice for canning. ...

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A limited express: five seconds for refreshments! / Thomas Worth.

A limited express: five seconds for refreshments! / Thomas Worth.

Passengers rush across a station platform from a train at left, pushing and shoving their way through the station doorway. A sign over the doorway reads "Lunch on the American plan." Currier & Ives : a catalogu... More

[Flight 30: machine close to the ground, Wilbur piloting, covering a distance of 784 feet in 22 3/4 seconds; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 30: machine close to the ground, Wilbur piloting, covering a d...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

In the 8 seconds it takes to read this sentence, another handgun will have been produced in the United States ... Let's support handgun control

In the 8 seconds it takes to read this sentence, another handgun will ...

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A limited express: five seconds for refreshments! / Thomas Worth.

A limited express: five seconds for refreshments! / Thomas Worth.

Passengers rush across a station platform from a train at left, pushing and shoving their way through the station doorway. A sign over the doorway reads "Lunch on the American plan." Currier & Ives : a catalogu... More

[Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville at the controls, making two complete circles of the field at Huffman Prairie in 2 minutes and 45 seconds; Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, places a sheet metal part on a Masonite die prior to moving it under the press. The 3,000 ton press takes only about ten seconds to do the actual forming. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hyd...

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Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. When the gong sounds the alarm, the firemen jump into their boots and get into their helmets and coats while the truck is on its way to the fire. Once the alarm is sounded the complete operation of getting dressed and leaving the building takes about seven seconds

Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. When the gong sounds the ala...

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Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the maufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Placing a bar of iron in an electric induction furnace. This raises the temperature of the end of the bar to red heat in about ten seconds. The other is completely cold

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the maufacture of casings for 105 mm. shel...

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Add automatic river gauge. After dialing the Potomac River Gauge, A.L. King, U.S. Weather Bureau observer, waits for the first buzz, then sets his stop watch which continues until the buzz signal is again heard then he stops the watch. The time interval between the two signals is converted into the gauge height by dividing the number of seconds in the interval by 30 as gauge height above a field zero point is represented 830 seconds for each vertical foot of water, 4938

Add automatic river gauge. After dialing the Potomac River Gauge, A.L....

A man sitting at a desk talking on a phone, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. No. 2. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 195... More

[ Danny Kaye/UNICEF - Reading Time - 60 seconds]

[ Danny Kaye/UNICEF - Reading Time - 60 seconds]

Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes ... More

Celebrated trotting horse "John Stewart" as he appeared on the twentieth mile: In his great match against time over the fashion course L.I. Tuesday Sept. 22nd 1868. When he performed the unparaleeled feat of trotting to wagon 20 miles in 59 minutes and 23 seconds

Celebrated trotting horse "John Stewart" as he appeared on the twentie...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0999.

Shamrock II crossing finish line two seconds ahead of Columbia

Shamrock II crossing finish line two seconds ahead of Columbia

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Washington, D.C. This cat was born in cold room where meat is stored in the District grocery store warehouse, and has never been out of it for more than a few seconds at a time

Washington, D.C. This cat was born in cold room where meat is stored i...

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Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. Firemen sleep in their shirts and socks and when the alarm sounds they jump into their boots which have fireproofed pants attached, slide down the pole, jump onto the truck and are leaving the building within seven seconds

Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. Firemen sleep in their shirt...

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The king of the road: Dexter driven by his owner Mr. Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger at Prospect Park Brooklyn August 31st 1869, trotting a mile to a road wagon. weighing with driver 319 lbs. in the unprecedented time of 2 minutes 21 3/4 seconds

The king of the road: Dexter driven by his owner Mr. Robert Bonner of ...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3601

Add automatic river gauge. After dialing the Potomac River Gauge, A.L. King, U.S. Weather Bureau observer, waits for the first buzz, then sets his stop watch which continues until the buzz signal is again heard then he stops the watch. The time interval between the two signals is converted into the gauge height by dividing the number of seconds in the interval by 30 as gauge height above a field zero point is represented 8/30 seconds for each vertical foot of water, 4/9/38

Add automatic river gauge. After dialing the Potomac River Gauge, A.L....

A man sitting at a desk talking on a phone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Modern ambulances save precious seconds in getting to the scene of a disaster

Civilian protection. Modern ambulances save precious seconds in gettin...

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May 5th 1904 Japan seconds army is state to up land at vicinity Hishika peninsula Ryoto China

May 5th 1904 Japan seconds army is state to up land at vicinity Hishik...

Print shows the Japanese Second Army landing on the Liaodong Peninsula, causing the Russian troops to flee, during the Russo-Japanese war. From series: Memorial Picture for the victory in the Russo-Japanese War. No. 12.

[TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECONDS TO MAKE THEIR PICTURES AS HE BEGAN HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE ABA CONVENTION]

[TALKS TO BANKERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PHOTOGRAPHERS 60 SECOND...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[ Danny Kaye/UNICEF - Reading Time - 60 seconds]

[ Danny Kaye/UNICEF - Reading Time - 60 seconds]

Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes ... More

Flies In Triumph- Wright Biplane Soars for 16 Minutes 53 Seconds [Washington Post, 18 July 1909]

Flies In Triumph- Wright Biplane Soars for 16 Minutes 53 Seconds [Wash...

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Flies In Triumph- Wright Biplane Soars for 16 Minutes 53 Seconds [Washington Post, 18 July 1909]

Flies In Triumph- Wright Biplane Soars for 16 Minutes 53 Seconds [Wash...

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[Long-range view of flight 69, in which Orville covered a distance of 358 feet in 1 minute and 31 seconds, large tree in the foreground, machine in the background; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Long-range view of flight 69, in which Orville covered a distance of ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More