Yesterday Today

22 Strange and Amazing Inventions From the 1920s and 1930s.

Bulletproof Glass (1931)
Bulletproof glass, demonstration by the best rifle man of the New York police, 1931.

Single Wheel Motorcycle (1931)
One wheel motorcycle (invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine). Maximum speed: 150 kilometers per hour ( 93 Mph).

Life Jackets Made From Bicycle Tubing (1925)
A group of youngsters tied a bike tyre around the body as a swimming aid. Germany, 1925.

Wooden Bathing Suits (1929)
Wooden bathing suits, supposed to make swimming a lot easier. Haquian, Washington, USA, 1929.

Radio Stroller (1921)
Stroller equipped with a radio, including antenna and loudspeaker, to keep the baby quiet; USA, 1921.

Hat With Integrated Radio (1931)
Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor in 1931.

Clap Skate (1936)
In 1936, inventor R. Handl came up with the movable heel plate, but it wasn’t until 1996 that this concept revolutionized skating.

Extensible Caravan (1934)
Extensible caravan, built by a French engineer. France, 1934.

Piano For the Bedridden (1935)
Piano especially designed for people confined to bedrest; Great Britain, 1935.

Hamblin Glasses (1936)
A pair of spectacles especially designed for reading in bed. England, 1936.

All Terrain Vehicle (1931)
This all-terrain car can descend slopes up to 65 degrees; England, 1936.

Electrically Heated Jacket (1932)
Electrically heated vest, developed for the traffic police in the United States, 1932. The power is supplied by electric contacts in the street.

Loetafoon (1929)
A turntable linked to a film projector. It comes with single, dual and triple turntable. Designed by F.B.A. Prinsen, 1929.

Amphibious Bicycle (1932)
This land-and-water bike can carry a load of 120 pounds; Paris, 1932.

Car With Shovel For Pedestrians (1924)
Kind of shovel on a car. Purpose: reducing the number of casualties among pedestrians. Paris, 1924.

Hearing Light For the Blind (1912)
Hearing light with a new invented apparatus, 1912.

Early GPS (1932)
Yesteryear’s TomTom, a rolling key map that passes through the screen in a tempo determined by the speed of the car; 1932.

Portable and Extendable Bridge (1926)
The emergency bridge can easily be transported on a handcart; invented by L. Deth. The Netherlands, 1926.

Faxed Newspaper (1938)
In 1938, the world’s first wireless newspaper was sent from WOR radio station in New York City. In this photo, children are reading the children’s page of a Missouri paper

Snowstorm Mask (1939)
Plastic face protection from snowstorms. Canada, Montreal, 1939.

Baby Stroller Protected From Gas Attacks (1938)
A wartime stroller equipped with gas protection; England, Hextable, 1938.

Revolver Camera (1938)
A Colt 38 carrying a small camera that automatically takes a picture when you pull the trigger. At the left: six pictures taken by the camera. New York, 1938.

31 Beautiful Vintage Photos of Stewardess Uniforms from the 1960s and 1970s

52 Stunning Photos of Actress Terry Moore in the 1940s and 1950s

Born 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, American film and television actress Terry Moore worked as a child model before making her film debut in Maryland in 1940. She was billed as Judy Ford, Jan Ford, and January Ford before taking Terry Moore as her name in 1948. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Moore worked in radio in the 1940s, most memorably as Bumps Smith on The Smiths of Hollywood.

During the 1950s, Moore worked steadily in films such as The Great Rupert (1950), Two of a Kind (1951), Man on a Tightrope (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Between Heaven and Hell (1956), Bernardine (1957), A Private’s Affair (1959), and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).

Moore married, in 1951, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner Glenn Davis (known as Mr. Outside when he played at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point), which lasted only one year. A subsequent marriage to Eugene McGarth, in 1956, lasted three years. One year after this marriage ended, Moore married Stuart Cramer after his divorce from Jean Peters; they had two children together, Stuart Cramer IV and actor Grant Cramer, before divorcing in 1972. In 1979, Moore claimed to have married Richard F. Carey, in Mexico; he disappeared a few days later, having swindled her and others out of their money. Her 1992 marriage to Jerry Rivers lasted until his death in 2001.

Moore became the subject of public attention as a result of her relationship with Howard Hughes. According to Moore, she and Hughes were married in 1949 in a ceremony performed by a ship captain in international waters. Moore has said that Hughes destroyed the ship’s log that recorded the marriage, and they separated from each other by 1956, but she and Hughes were never divorced. Moore has explained her subsequent marriages during Hughes’ lifetime by saying, “I didn’t care whether I was a bigamist or not, frankly. I mean, my desire to have children was that strong.”

The Texas courts rejected Moore’s claim of being Hughes’ widow based on judicial estoppel; since Moore had claimed in her divorce from Cramer to have been married to him in 1959 and received a property settlement in that case, her claim that she was married to Hughes at the time was inconsistent with that and would not be accepted. Nevertheless, the Hughes heirs agreed that Moore had had a long-term relationship with Hughes and agreed to a financial settlement with her. Moore described the settlement as “not more than eight figures”; a biography of Hughes implies that the settlement was $350,000.

Moore dated actor Glenn Ford in the early 1970s.

Here below is a glamorous photo collection that shows portrait of young Terry Moore in the 1940s and 1950s.

38 Amazing Photos Showing Everyday Life of People in Their Houses during the Victorian and Edwardian Eras

The economic transformations of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century brought about further changes in men’s and women’s roles. Work was less likely to be done in the home, as fewer and fewer Americans lived on farms, and men left the home to work in offices and factories. Men assumed sole responsibility for the financial support of the family, becoming the breadwinners, a term coined in the early 19th century. Married women were not supposed to work for wages, and were considered too pure and innocent to be out in the working world. Women were supposed to devote themselves to domestic duties, and children were seen as young innocents who needed a mother’s protection. Fathers had less and less to do with raising their children.

Although the 19th-century ideal held that married women were not supposed to work, women did contribute to the family’s well-being. Wealthy women planned formal dinners, balls, and other social gatherings that were crucial to their husbands’ political and business success. Middle-class women sewed for what they called pin money, small amounts that frequently balanced the family budget. Married women in the middle and working classes took in boarders, sold hot lunches or pastries to neighbors, and saved money by doing their own baking, brewing, gardening, and other chores. It was also common in middle- and working-class families for sons to be sent to school, while their teenage sisters supported this schooling by working in a factory, teaching in elementary schools, or taking in sewing. Such work was considered acceptable as long as it was either done in the house or by unmarried young women.

Many 19th-century American families did not fit into this nuclear family ideal, as it was expensive. High housing costs meant more people than just the nuclear family often lived under one roof. Extended families, including grandparents and other relatives, were most numerous in the mid-19th century. Immigrants clung to traditional extended-family forms, and poorer families often included grandparents, grandchildren, and sometimes aunts and uncles in order to maximize sources of income and save on rent.

Check out these amazing photos below to see how did everyday life of people in their houses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

50 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Wartime Weddings of Soldiers of World War 2

The war years of 1939 to 1945 were filled with romance amid pain and suffering. During World War II many women arranged wartime weddings within a few days to accommodate a boyfriend coming home on a 24 hour leave, before being sent to combat. Frequently there was no time to get a special dress and often women could not afford the clothing coupons needed for a wedding dress.

Nevertheless happy weddings took place, with family members donating small amounts of staples like sugar, flour and eggs so that the war bride could bake a wedding cake.

Women borrowed hats, raided gardens for flowers and loaned wedding dresses. Bridesmaids reused dresses worn to other weddings. This sometimes gave a mix and match look to bridal group photographs. Most brides wore clothes so that every item could be used again in a different venue. Friends and family rallied around loaning a hat, a bit of lace, or a dress.

A bride often wore her hair high on top of her head in a waved roll. Abundant hair was helpful, but lack of it did not stop women from adopting the style. Ever resourceful, they used old stockings rolled up to create foundations to be covered by their own hair. This style became popular since it offered the glamour lacking in other areas of wartime life. The look is film star glam.

Army, Navy and Air Corps personnel usually wore their uniforms when they wed.

In 1944, an American B-29 pilot was returning with his crew from a bombing raid over Japan, when the plane’s engine caught fire. The pilot used his parachute to jump from the burning aircraft. Later the chute helped him survive by providing shelter until he was rescued. After returning home from war, he proposed to his girlfriend. She used the life-saving parachute as material for her wedding dress. She modeled her dress on one which appeared in the movie Gone With The Wind. The bride used the original parachute strings to create the train in the back. A person can think of no other wedding dress that would be as meaningful as one that saved the life of the groom. (www.hhhistory.com)

50 Magnificent Photos of Cities of the World During the 19th and 20th Century

**Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, 1904**

47 Vintage Photos Showing Young People During the 1970s

21 Amazing Colorized Photos Showing World War 1

**The announcement of armistice brought ecstatic scenes to Philadelphia. This picture was taken on Nov 11, 1918.**

**Captain Benjamin H Geary VC, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment being carried in on a stretcher by prisoner bearers at Achiet-le-Petit. 21 Aug 1918.**

**A crowd of soldiers on the Western Front celebrating as an officer announces the news of the Armistice.**

**Three soldiers look out across a battlefield where wagons are upturned and destroyed and craters break up the mud.**

**A group of troops wave their hats as they pose for a camera on the edge of a road next to some hedgerows on Armistice Day.**

**New Zealand troops on the Western front laughing and smiling in a trench.**

**Canadian soldiers charging at the enemy during a dawn attack by going over the top of the trenches.**

**This poignant photo shows the funeral of Sergeant Henry Nicholas, VC, in World War I, France.**

**20th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Neuville St. Vaast, April 1917. The horse are soaking and laden with gear.**

**German soldiers on board a tank which bears the word escapade on the side. Three sit on the top while another leans out of the window.**

**Crowds in New York celebrate the end of the First World War. America joined the conflict in 1917.**

**A group of Scottish soldiers wearing kilts smiled for the camera as they prepared to board a truck to head away from the battlefields.**

**Nuns laying wreaths in a field of mass graves. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was around 40 million.**

**Smiling British men and boys marching out of a trench captured from the Germans at the Somme. A sign reads ‘the old hun line’ – referring to where the German front line used to be.**

**A group of eight British soldiers stand next to a blown-out building. They smile as they pose for the camera wearing their helmets.**

**A German prisoner helps British wounded make their way to a dressing station near Bernafay Wood, following fighting on Bazentin Ridge, July 19, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.**

**Scottish troops march with combat gear and rifles slung over their backs as they make their way over a grassy mound during the Battle of the Canal du Nord, 1918.**

**Canadaian soldiers relax in a captured trench in France. One can be seen attending to his rifle as another smokes a cigarette.**

**French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun. One sits on the mud as others help the wounded.**

**A bombed out town with collapsing buildings as a lone soldier wanders near a crater. Pictured 24. A gigantic shell crater, 75 yards in circumference, Ypres, Belgium, October 1917.**

**German officers with an armored car, Ukraine, Spring of 1918. They stand next to the car as they smile for the camera.**

Photos colorized by Cardiff based electrician Royston Leonard

17 Vintage Photos of Zoot Suits Being Worn During the 1940s

A zoot suit is a men’s suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. This style of clothing became popular among the African American, Chicano, Filipino American, and Italian American communities during the 1940s.

The zoot suit of the 1940s was full of scandal. Technically illegal due to the abundance of fabric needed to make it and the restrictions place by the war board it was the underground dress uniform of young, ethnic, rebellious men. These “swing kids” danced in jazz clubs, purchased their clothes on the black market and in L.A. caused a month long street war.

Young people continued to wear the style and the suits soon became associated with delinquency and crime. Most wearers were simply rebellious youths, many in inner city urban areas like Harlem and Los Angeles, trying to form a culture all their own. The wearers of zoot suits were seen as being unpatriotic, and tensions between zoot-suiters and military servicemen stationed in California erupted in a week of violent street fighting in Los Angeles in mid-1943 that came to be known as the Zoot Suit Riots.

55 Beautiful Photos of Yvonne de Carlo from between the 1940s and 1960s.

A vibrant, full-bodied performer with a rich voice and a lushly sensuous if somewhat odd beauty, Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007) achieved stardom in the 1940s in some of the more bizarre escapism of that era.

Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian born American actress, singer, and dancer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A brunette with blue-grey eyes, voluptuous figure, and a deep sultry voice, she was one of most recognizable stars in the golden age of Hollywood and an early multihyphenate.

She began taking dancing lessons at the age of three and spent her late teens performing in various night clubs and on stage. She made her screen debut in 1941 in an uncredited role in the comedy film ‘Harvard, Here I Come’.

After appearing in several other movies in the same capacity, she played the titular character in the 1945 western drama ‘Salome, Where She Danced’. Her next important role was in ‘Song of Scheherazade’ in 1947, which though gave traction to her career, ended up typecasting her as an Arabian Nights-type temptress dressed in harem attire. Despite this stereotyping, she did significant work in comedy and western genres, and was part of the main cast of the 1960s sitcom ‘The Munsters’.

In 1957, she released her first and only album ‘Yvonne De Carlo Sings’. As she aged, she made a relatively easy transformation to being a character actor, active and compelling well into her 70s. De Carlo received two separate stars in 1960 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to films and television.