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Iranian newspaper clip, 1968 which reads: “A quarter of Iran’s Nuclear Energy scientists are women.” The picture shows five female Iranian PhDs posing in front of Tehran’s research reactor.

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Harriet Quimby in the cockpit of her Blériot monoplane, 1911.

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Jost Amman’s 1568 illustration of a brewery.

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Holt Steamer No. 77, the second prototype of a crawler-track-type tractor built by the Holt Machinery Company, 1905.

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Record matrix room, Berliner Gramophone Company, Montréal, Québec, 1910.

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Samarkand Station, Russian Empire (modern day Uzbekistan), 1890.

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The Bund, a waterfront area in Shanghai, 1930.

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Alfred Norton Goldsmith, a founder of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the predecessor societies to the modern IEEE, with Italian Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi, June 26th, 1922.

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Laura Annie Willson, co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society, circa 1920. Willson was involved in the suffragette and trade union movements, and was imprisoned twice for her political activities.

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1933 postcard advertising the Atlantic City Auditorium and Convention Hall. Opened in 1929, the Hall has been designated an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

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Jagadish Chandra Bose with other prominent scientists and engineers at Calcutta University, circa 1920s. Bose was born in Bikrampur (present day Munshiganj in Bangladesh) and made many pioneering developments to radio research in the 1880s. Seated, left to right: Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Standing, left to right: Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N. R. Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N. C. Nag.

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1915 illustration of Elisha Gray’s telautograph system, an instrument designed for the electrical reproduction of handwriting.

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Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software engineer, in the Apollo Command Module, circa late 1960s.

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Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, circa 1900s, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Her degree was awarded in 1943 by The Catholic University of America for her dissertation “The Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences”.

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Illustration of a hydropowered perpetual flute from “The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices” by Ismail al-Jazari in 1206.

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1931 photo of the Liaodi Pagoda of Kaiyuan Monastery, Dingzhou, Hebei Province, China. Constructed in 1055, the pagoda stands at 276 feet tall and is the tallest brick pagoda in the world.

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Chiaki Mukai, the first Japanese woman to go to space, flying on the STS-65 mission in July 1994.