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Entries 71–79, oldest first.

№ 0071

Edison Records Echo All Over the World (Edison Gem Phonograph advertisement, 1900)

Full-page 1900 advertisement from the National Phonograph Company for Edison Records and the improved Gem Phonograph at $10.00, with a globe of cylinders, a portrait of Edison and a trademark warning.

4.0 MB · 3226 × 4935 · archived here

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Public domain, per the file's own licence record on Wikimedia Commons.

№ 0072

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (advertisement, 1882)

Column-format 1882 advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, with her engraved portrait, a list of ailments it claims to cure, prices and the Lynn, Massachusetts address.

1.3 MB · 923 × 2624 · archived here

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Public domain, per the file's own licence record on Wikimedia Commons.

№ 0073

Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us (Milton O. Thompson, NASA SP-2000-4522)

A 56-page monograph of Milton Thompson's c. 1974 draft on problems met in flight research at Dryden, with the X-15 and HL-10 as the main examples, and a background history of the center by J. D. Hunley.

1.2 MB · 56 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: www.nasa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0074

Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 (David S. F. Portree, NASA SP-2001-4521)

A 151-page NASA history of Mars expedition plans from Wernher von Braun's 1952 Mars Project through the Design Reference Mission of the 1990s.

2.1 MB · 151 pages · archived here

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Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0075

Memoirs of an Aeronautical Engineer: Flight Tests at Ames Research Center, 1940-1970 (Seth B. Anderson, NASA SP-2002-4526)

Seth Anderson's memoir of flight research at Ames from 1940 to 1970, 173 pages including a long section of photographs of the aircraft.

17.5 MB · 173 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: www.nasa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0076

Hawaii's Floating City Development Program, First Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1972

First annual report of a University of Hawaii and Oceanic Institute program to design a floating urban platform, dated August 31, 1972. 50 pages covering systems integration, environmental analysis, scale model research and preliminary engineering.

7.7 MB · 50 pages · archived here

Read about it · the PDF · source: repository.library.noaa.gov

Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0077

Lessons Learned From Project Apollo: Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop

Transcript of a July 21, 1989 roundtable in which Tindall, Mueller, Morris, Faget, Gilruth and Kraft discuss how Apollo was managed. NASA Monographs in Aerospace History No. 14, 1999, 52 pages.

3.1 MB · 52 pages · archived here

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Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

№ 0078

The Negro Travelers' Green Book, 1955

An 84-page 1955 edition of Victor H. Green's travel guide listing hotels, tourist homes, restaurants and other businesses that served Black travelers in the segregated United States.

14.5 MB · 84 pages · archived here

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Public domain, per the file's own licence record on Wikimedia Commons.

№ 0079

Lester Beall: A Significant American Corporate Identity Program

An 18-page profile of designer Lester Beall and his 1958 Connecticut General style book, described as an early corporate identity standards manual.

1.5 MB · 18 pages · archived here

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