Technological progress on the ground and in the air (1900-1929)

The Norge airship being launched from its hangar in March 1926. The airship takes off.

Preparing a car on railway wheels for a speed record.

A jet-powered car moving along a railway track.

The Land of the Soviets aircraft landing in New York on November 1, 1929. People run along the airfield to the landing site of the Soviet aircraft.

New Yorkers greet the Soviet aircraft as it finishes taxiing.

Flowers being presented to the crew.

Sights of Leningrad.

Fragments of the feature film: a pioneer squadron passes by, an airship in the sky.

A car with passengers drives along a street in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.

An aeronaut in the gondola of one of the first flying machines rises upward.

Ford cars leave the factory gates of a Detroit automobile plant in the 1910s.

A racing car crew negotiates a section of the track during a race in the early 20th century.

A view of one of the airship's engines before takeoff, with the propeller spinning.

A view of part of a city block (top).

A view of a winter forest through the inspection hatch of the airship's gondola.

The crew of an airship during a flight.

The propeller of one of the airship's engines is spinning, and people are on the airfield (top).

Residents of Paris during a triumphant welcome for pilot Louis Blériot, who flew across the English Channel in 1911. Street artists perform in Blériot's honor.

Early 20th-century engravings depicting scenes from the future.

An orchestra marches along the Champs-Élysées during a ceremonial welcome for Louis Blériot.

A ceremonial welcome for Louis Blériot in Paris.

An airplane flown by French pilot Charles Godefroy under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7, 1919. A balloon with lifting propellers lands.

A man turns the handle of a telephone.

A telephone exchange employee connects subscribers.