Testing a Bulletproof Vest
In this photo, we see the testing of a bulletproof vest dated back to 1923. This demonstration was shot live at Washington City police headquarters. The two men in the photo are WH Murphy and his assistant at the Protective Garment Corporation of New York. The vest weighed about 11lb, which was considered comfortable and efficient because it fit perfectly on the body.
Soon after this vest was tested, the Protective Garment Corporation of New York started to manufacture a lightweight vest for the police to use. Of course, these men were inventors and salesmen, and their main goal was to convince the police that their vests worked and that they would save hundreds of lives.
The Gadget
The device seen in this photo is called Trinity. It was the widget used for nuclear testing that was nicknamed The Gadget. This device was considered the first ever Atomic Bomb made to be tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945, near Alamogordo. It was also the first bomb to be detonated in the Manhattan Project. J. Robert Oppenheimer came up with the code name “Trinity,” which was taken from a line of John Donne's Poetry.
The structure of The Gadget was used again, and it replicated the design of the Fat Man, which was the bomb used during the last days of the Second World War.
The Bikini Atoll Program
In this photo, we see the nuclear testing at the Bikini Atoll program, which was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between the years 1946 to 1958. Seems a bit scary that it was detonated so close to neighboring islands, but these weapons were tested on the reef itself and in the air.
This all started in July of 1946 with Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test. The island of Bikini Atoll, which is one of the 23 islands that consisted of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, was uninhabitable because of all the radiation.
India’s First Satellite
India's first experimental satellite was all solid; it weighed more than 17 tons, was over 20 meters high, and had the ability to place 40 kg of class payloads in LEO ( Low Earth Orbit). It was launched in July of 1980, making India the sixth of the prestige space-faring nation club. This is a rare photo of the satellite, which looks nothing like it would have done today.
The SLV-3 (Satellite Launch Vehicle-3) project paved the way for many future satellite projects, such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), which were both successful.
Osama Bin Laden & Family
In the late 1990s of the past century and well into the beginning of the 2000s, Osama Bin Laden was the number one wanted man by the American government. Bin Laden was known for his extreme and terrorized ways, threatening the entire free and democratic world. In May 2011, he was finally caught and killed; however, his life was not always to the extreme.
In this photo, you can see a young Osama Bin Laden, who appears to be like any other normal kid his age. This photo was taken during a trip to Sweden with his family in the 1970s. He is second from the right with no worries to his name and no clue as to what the future was about to bring.