1942 - Developments from the earliest telegraph, telephone, and radio are compared to where those communications systems stand in 1942.
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USA - 1939 - While President Wilson's League of Nations fizzles out, the international scientific community unifies the world with myriad inventions and discoveries.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, a man wisecracks his way out of paying for a coat.
1928 - In this animated film, the use of an electrical stethoscope is demonstrated.
1935 - In this animated film, gnomes do battle using bottled sunshine, which turns their gloomy neighbors happy and beautifies the land.
1933 - A boy builds his own small car to drive along the sidewalk on his paper route.
1945 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra a montage shows inventions modernizing America along with the construction of dams, bridges and skyscrapers, set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, a man gets fired while thinking he's about to elope.
1908 - Orville Wright flies with a passenger at Fort Meyer, Virginia, where he is watched by civilians and servicemen.
1959 - In this animated film, Scratch the caveman and Squeak the cowboy puppet test their snow machine, but all it produces are rain, hail and bubbles.
1959 - In this animated film, Scratch the caveman and Squeak the cowboy puppet invent a machine that makes snow but it produces smoke instead, amusing their friend Colonel Bleep the alien.
Machines in a science fiction lab with blue lights and reflections
1928 - In this animated film, a telephone explains what it and a microphone have in common.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, a salesman wins an award at work and makes a funny speech about having nothing more to say.
1930 - A woman demonstrates the use of a dizzying new gymnastics contraption in Vienna, Austria.
1933 - In this animated film, Koko the clown's self-threading sewing machine goes on a rampage, sewing animals' mouths shut and sewing up the countryside, trapping workers and animals.
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USA - 1923 - In this silent comedy, an inventor uses a pulley system to put away his Murphy bed and clean his hat and shoes.
1932 - A man jumps off a bridge with wings strapped to his arms in a flight experiment, and a boat picks him up from the water.
1937 - A man invents a special kind of hat and mask with which to eat grapefruit without getting squirted in the eye.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a man distributes an antidote to policemen and gangsters sent into uncontrollable fits of dancing by a mysterious chemical.
1909 - The Wright Brothers' military airplane is wheeled out of a hangar at Fort Meyer.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, a salesman opens mail with a hatchet and uses a slingshot to make a delivery boy send a message faster.
1934 - An experimental dymaxion car is driven and parallel parked.
1920s - Indoor plumbing and new inventions like vacuum cleaners improve the lives of rural folks.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, a salesman fast-talks a customer into an expensive magazine subscription before he knows what hit him.
Magical sunset 4k aerial video of British Airways i360 viewing tower pod with tourists in Brighton, UK with sea and Brighton Palace Pier in the background.
1933 - In this animated film, Betty Boop plays a pipe organ powered by pigs, Bimbo takes tickets, and Koko the clown admits animals to a circus.
Exploration of futuristic technology in a sleek lab environment
1959 - A British inventor flies a hovercraft prototype over land and sea.
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USA - 1923 - In this silent comedy, an inventor with a horseshoe magnet-powered car ditches a policeman and tries to drive up to a pretty woman in her car.
1937 - In this animated film, Grampy whimsically concludes tidying up Betty Boop's house before taking her out for a drive.
1966 - A Dutch vehicle called an amphirol proves maneuverable on mud, quicksand, and in the water.
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1942 - The groundbreaking work of 18th century scientists Alessandro Volta, Joseph Henry, and William Watson lays the groundwork for Samuel Morse and the electromagnet.
1945 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, a montage shows the myriad inventions and jobs in America that have contributed to its high standard of living.
USA - 1935 - In this comedy, the head of a sales group tells a cocky salesman that he's the worst worker on the team.
1935 - In this animated film, gnomes wake up and sing praises to the sun.
1938 - An inventor demonstrates the use of his new device which can send facsimiles of newspapers by radio.
1935 - In this animated film, gnomes attack a neighboring village with bottled sunshine, forcing its gloomy inhabitants to become happy.
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USA - 1942 - In this animated film, a shoe has been invented to combat "hot foot" pranks, and a mailman writes "forwarding address unknown" on an inventor's mail when the man's house blows up.
1937 - In this animated film, Grampy uses eccentric machines and silly tactics to tidy up Betty Boop's house.
1946 - A revolutionary propeller is tested on a US Navy landing craft.
1933 - In this animated film, a machine is used to crack chicken eggs as soon as they are laid. Another invention helps a man eat soup without slurping, and Koko the clown uses a typewriter to eat corn on the cob.
Old technology components on a workbench in a dimly lit room
1938 - In this animated film, a rural couple marvels over new inventions at the World's Fair.
Old electronics and circuit board on a work surface with tools
1928 - In this animated film, a film strip explains how talking pictures are made and exhibited.
1933 - A man drives a car with a fifth wheel that helps with parallel parking.