History pics thread

Great thread idea.
Subbed as fuuuck

 

As a WWII buff this is a awesome thread op. Keep it coming.

 

Nice
 
I've got a history thread somewhere in here I made years ago but quit updating; I should resurrect it...

 

I'm currently studying to become a civil engineer so these pics are mostly related to that. Historical engineering projects are the shit. Not all of these will be photographs as some of the projects predate photography. I'll post later with a different historical theme to keep things interesting. War pics are great but there is more to history than war.
 
Steel workers on the Empire State building with no harnesses or safety nets.

 
Locks on the Erie Canal. This was the first major canal in the US to open up commerce and trade in the Northeast. The canal was completed in 1825 under the supervision of Benjamin Wright aka "The Father of American Civil Engineering" and represented both the industrial growth of the US economy as well as the major advancements in civil engineering technology including the use of hydraulic cement.

 
 
Land surveyors, the people who are invaluable to civil engineers. Long before the advent of total stations and other digital measuring equipment these were the folks out there using tedious methods and analog equipment to chart new territories, plan towns and cities, provide accurate measurements for cutting edge construction projects, lay out routes for cross-continental roads, and to define the borders between states.
 
A team of surveyors in the early 1900s.Those telescopes they have on the tripods are actually analog theodolites and they are very difficult to use properly. Unlike modern total stations, the classic theodolite relied totally on analog readings thus making it the duty of the surveyor to make the appropriate calculations to turn angles or measure distances; all of this without a calculator of course.

 
Many of the US presidents were surveyors including Thomas Jefforson, George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and more.
An iconic portrait of Abe Lincoln using a surveyors compass to trace a boundary line on the top, George Washington on the bottom in a highly idealized painting also using a surveyors compass. Note that the Native Americans would have been more likely to kill a land surveyor than to sit around with one... to be fair we were intruding on their land and claiming it as our own so I don't blame them.

 
Bridges, the whole reason I chose to go into civil engineering.
A painting of the Former London bridge in all of its glory. The fact that the bridge was capable of supporting a load including multistory buildings, heavy foot and wagon traffic, and acted as a city unto itself is a testament to the engineers who designed it.

 
The Brooklyn Bridge was the first suspension bridge to utilize steel cables thus giving the bridge a much higher max load capicity which enabled it to withstand intense loads from vehicle traffic. As you can see there are two workers (likely engineers due to the lack of tools, they aren't actually working, and the fact they are the only ones there).

 
 
And my final picture from the post isn't quite ancient history yet but it represents a major achievement in bridge technology. The Millau Viaduct Bridge in Southern France was completed in 2004 and still stands as the tallest Cable Stayed Bridge in the world at 1,125 ft or 343 m. These bridges are similar to the the suspension bridge however they are often much more efficient to construct and can withstand immense loads. The pier in the center stands taller than the Eiffel Tower.

 

^there is a cool documentary on Netflix about the steel workers in the first picture.
It's called Men At Work

 

From before the Phila temple and Abu Simbel monuments were moved to avoid the rising waters of the Nile.

 

 
That may very well be the Hindenburg - I can't make out the registration numbers on the side - just shortly before it's fiery end.  It went down in New Jersey.
 
Edit: Yes, a google image search for 'Hindenburg' brings up this, and similar images.

 

I was just about to make this thread. I'm going to be posting videos too though. You've already shared quite a few of my favorites like the clearing of the German artifact site in the first post and the Germans having a snow ball fight. I do want to post war and historical footage but it might be get too political.
 

War Never Changes
 

Thousand Yard Stare
 
 
 

Bison on his way to fight Guile
 

Soviet spy laughing before execution
 

 

Trench Warfare WWI
 

 

 

50 Day War last year
 

 

http://forum.grasscity.com/pandoras-box/1144273-history-420.html?hl=history%20420
 
There's my old history thread.  It only has a couple of photographs of Roza Shanina.
 

 
I really should pick a topic and post something new - just not sure what...

 

That last photo is a staged photo of the Germans during the battle of the bulge. They overtook and American convoy during their advance. I have a book someplace of the entire series of photos taken during that time. In that photo they are advancing back from the direction they came. They are also using captured American equipment.

 

I believe these are tiger tanks of the 2ND ss Das Reich after the battle of Kursk. I believe the jumping devil was used only during the kursk campaign.

 

 
Here's the Hindenburg over Boston in 1936:
 

 
German zeppelins were flying all over the place until the Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey. Not an uncommon sight.