Scientific and technological progress and culture at the beginning of the 20th century (1900-1947)

Photograph of the great Russian chemist D.I. Mendeleyev.

Periodic table.

Views of prison walls, bars on a window.

French artist Auguste Renoir at his easel in the early 20th century.

Fragment of Renoir's painting "The Box".

View of part of the Eiffel Tower (panorama from bottom to top).

The tower's builder, engineer Eiffel, gives an interview.

View of the Eiffel Tower.

Drawing depicting the Eiffel Tower and Trocadero from above.

Electrical advertising in Paris.

View of the front of a car in a car dealership, people getting into the cabin.

Balloonists in the basket of a hot air balloon before takeoff.

Balloons on a field before the start of flights.

A walking car moves in reverse.

American inventor Thomas Edison records his voice on a wax cylinder of a phonograph.

Silhouette of a human head illuminated by X-rays.

Heart in the chest.

Inventor of cinematography Louis Lumiere watches a film in the second half of the 1940s.

Steeplejacks wash the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan, New York.

Views of New York City neighborhoods and skyscrapers.

American landscapes.

Transporting hay bales on a large farm.

View of an oil field in Texas.

View of Niagara Falls.

View of part of an industrial plant.

Production processes in the foundry of one of the enterprises.

View of the bow of a transoceanic liner (top).

A liner entering the port of New York (top).

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, accompanied by his retinue, inspects his troops during a parade.

Gymnastics in one of the units of the German army.

Soldiers jump over a horse.

Wilhelm II and his entourage in the forest during a hunt near the French border.

The Kaiser inspects the hunting trophies.

Weapons designer Maxim fires a machine gun mounted on a wheeled carriage.

View of the muzzle of one of the guns manufactured at the Krupp factories.

The face of the German industrialist Krupp.

Panorama of the workshop for the production of heavy artillery guns at one of the Krupp factories.

Count Zeppelin with an interlocutor.

An airship before takeoff.

View of the Opera building in Paris.

Views of Parisian streets at the beginning of the 20th century, horse-drawn and automobile traffic.

Feeding a child with semolina porridge.

View of part of London (from above).

Horse-drawn transport on the streets of London.

Ships on the Thames.

View of one of the British industrial enterprises.

The production process in the workshop of one of the factories.

The main caliber guns of one of the British battleships.

View of Westminster Abbey.

Residents of India and China.