Emile Berliner, inventor of the phonograph and phonograph record, aka, gramophone, poses with his first phonograph machine, first exhibited in 1893, at the National Museum in Washington, D.C., February 21, 1921. The phonograph is the direct ancestor of the Victrola of today and still plays despite its 27 years. (Photo by AP Photo)





An “exploding” sweater of the kind that have brought complaints to police across the nation in the past few weeks, is enveloped in flames after having been ignited by Philip Toffler (second from left), president of Vic-Ess Manufacturing Company, in doorway of his establishment at 9 East 17th Street in New York, January 13, 1952. Watching demonstration are: City Fire Marshal Martin Scott, right, his aide Fireman 1st Grade Frank Healy (second from right) and City Detective Felix Ruggieri, left. Scott said experiment showed “brush rayon” sweater is enveloped in flames four seconds after match is applied and is to ashes in 50 seconds. (Photo by Jacob Harris/AP Photo)





Sonja Henie practices in Oslo, Norway, January 24, 1928. Henie will compete in the Figure Skating Ladies Single at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz. (Photo by AP Photo)





John McEnroe kicks back a television camera that he felt was crowding him on the court during the finals of the U.S. Pro Indoor Tennis Championships in Philadelphia January 27, 1985. McEnroe defeated Czech Miroslav Mecir to win the tournament. (Photo by Amy Sancetta/AP Photo)





A worker sharpening tools at London and North Western Railway works, Crewe, Cheshire, 8th March 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Part of the huge batch of men who arrived at the recruiting office in Great Scotland Yard, London on May 2, 1939. The push to increase the regular army has been increased by the introduction of the conscription bill. There is no difference in normal long-term recruiting, which is still on a strictly voluntary basis. (Photo by AP Photo/Staff/Puttnam)





Children in the city of Mainz on Rhine on May 3, 1934 during the “pray for the Saar territory”. On their side, the leader of the German work front, Dr. Robert. Ley. (Photo by AP Photo)





Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News telling of the Titanic maritime disaster, outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House in London's Cockspur Street, 16th April 1912. Six years later Parfett was killed during a German bombardment whilst serving in France, just days before the end of World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Children from the East End of London holding a meeting to discuss their day in the country, for which the Hoxton Market Mission are organising a fund appeal, 9th May 1932. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)





Small portable television receiver with a 110-degree wide angle 9½-inch screen at a camping exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, March 3, 1960. The receiver is powered by an automobile battery. It costs 165 dollars and is made by Kaiser-Werke, Kenttingen/Breisgau of West Germany. (Photo by Peter Hillebrecht/AP Photo)





The towering lacy mushroom from the atomic cannon's first test rises from desert floor at Frenchman's flat, near Las Vegas, Nevada on May 25, 1953. The 280-mm gun which tossed the shell to its destination six or seven mile away is in the foreground. The rifle was touched off electrically, with the gun-loading crew entrenched a safe distance away. This picture, released on May 27, by the air force, was made probably about 10 seconds after the explosion. (Photo by AP Photo)





Built for public transportation, this subway finds greater use in war-time London as an air-raid shelter, October 21, 1940. Although the quarters are cramped, they are much to be preferred to the dangers above ground during night-long bombing attacks on the capital. (Photo by AP Photo)





To re-word the adage a little, that is the situation in Japan, with many of the nation's males at the front. There women are tending a seed garden for rice on October 26, 1937. They pick it, bundle it, and afterward spread it over prepared fields. Every inch of space is utilized, and workers toil from light until dark or longer. (Photo by AP Photo)





A crowd reads newspaper headlines of “Bombs Rain On Warsaw” as they stand outside the U.S. State Department building where diplomats hold a conference on war conditions in Europe in Washington, D.C., September 1, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)





Engineers for a bomb shelter manufacturer, Vincent Carubia, left, and Eward Klein, study specifications for a fiber glass dome shelter being installed on an estate in Locust Valley, N.Y., on September 7, 1961. The dome is designed to cover an excavation, being dug in background, which is to be floored, walled and outfitted for emergency living. (Photo by AP Photo)





High school teacher Christa McAuliffe folds her training uniform as she packs for Houston in Concord, September 8, 1985. McAuliffe will leave on Sunday for NASA training for her January flight aboard the space shuttle as the first private citizen to ride in space. (Photo by Jim Cole/AP Photo)





A crane pulled the pilot house of the federal gunboat “Cairo” from the muddy waters of the Yazoo River in Vicksburg, Mississippi on September 15, 1960, making possible an underwater study of the boat, which sank after hitting a mine. The recovery resulted from the work of Ken Parks and Skeeter Hart of Jackson, with the aid of Ed Gamble, who took the picture. (Photo by Ed Gamble/AP Photo)





Sugar cane worker takes a quick break to enjoy some refreshing and energizing juice from the plant on a farm in Cuba, September 27, 1968. (Photo by Henri Huet/AP Photo)





A string of white vehicles follow the hearse carrying the body of rock and roll musician Elvis Presley along Elvis Presley Boulevard on the way to Forest Hills Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., August 19, 1977. Thousands of people line the route for the city's final tribute to Elvis. (Photo by AP Photo)





Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps in their service vehicle, driving through Trafalgar Square during the VE Day celebrations in London. (Photo by R.J. Salmon/Getty Images)