AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Thomas Alva Edison reads on the lawn at his Glenmont mansion in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., in 1917. (AP Photo)

Charlie Chaplin holds a puppet doll of the Tramp in Hollywood, Ca., in 1917. Chaplin originated the Tramp character in the 1914 silent film,

U.S. Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower watches Illinois troops dig trenches during training at San Antonio, Ft. Houston, Texas, in 1916. (AP Photo/The D.D. Ei...

U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, and Mamie Geneva Doud, 18, pose on a Sunday morning in Nov. 1915, one month after their first meeting. Eisenhow...

Langston Hughes, foreground, poses for a photograph in his boyhood hometown of Lawrence, Kan., in this circa 1914 photo. Hughes left Lawrence a year l...

Spectators watch the Indianapolis 500-mile race from their parked cars inside the infield of the oval Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track during the 3rd...

Suffragists led by

A man behind the counter helps a customer inside a pharmacy in 1913 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

American golfer Francis B. Ouimet, center, shakes hands with Harry Vardon, left, and Ted Ray, both of Britain, at the U.S. Open Golf Championship at T...

Louis Mountbatten is shown as a naval cadet in 1913. (AP Photo)

John F.

Aviation pioneer Cal Rodgers, with an ever-present cigar in his mouth, is seen in this December 1911 photo sitting in the cockpit of his Wright EX pl...

Drivers speed into the first turn on the Brickyard in the first Indianapolis 500-mile race in Indianapolis, Ind., Thursday, May 30, 1911. The drivers...

Blanche Stuart Scott takes instruction from J.C. Mars at Hammondsport, N.Y. in 1910 before becoming the first woman to pilot a plane. (AP Photo)

French flyer Louis Bleriot, facing camera at back of plane, is surrounded by journalists after landing on a golf course near Dover, England, on Sunday...

French flyer Louis Bleriot, left, stands in front of his plane after landing on a golf course near Dover, England, on Sunday, July 25, 1909. Bleriot...

A Hungarian mother and her four children pose after their arrival in 1909 at Ellis Island in New York City. (AP Photo/National Park Service/Statue of...

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is photographed wearing a period costume dress at the age of nine at Glamis Castle, her home in Scotland, in 1909. (AP Phot...

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is photographed wearing a period fancy dress costume at the age of nine with her younger brother, David, at Glamis Castle, h...

Troops of the U.S. Army Signal Corps rush to the site of a crashed plane to recover the pilot Orville Wright and his passenger, army observer Lieutena...

Aviator Henry Farman is seen in his Voisin biplane at Issy les Moulineaux prior to making the first 1km flight on a closed ciruit, Jan. 13, 1908. (AP...

Orville Wright is at the controls of the

Cadets of the United States Military Academy are shown in uniform in a photo from the 1903 West Point yearbook in New York. Douglas MacArthur can be...

Members of the West Point football team pose in this 1903 yearbook photo at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Douglas MacAr...

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signs bills in the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1903. (AP Photo)

Henry Ford stands beside the Ford 999 racer constructed in Oct. 1902, his first contribution to automobile racing. The race car driver is Barney Oldf...

Pedestrians stroll along the promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City, 1891. The suspension bridge was open...

Women and men ice skate in New York's Central Park in 1893. (AP Photo)

Thomas A. Edison poses with the the tin-foil phonograph, which he exhibited at the National Academy of Science in Washington and later demonstrated fo...

Fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen is shown sitting on a bench in the garden of Religheden, near Copenhagen, Denmark., in 1869. (AP Photo)

American inventor and entrepreuner Thomas A. Edison is shown in 1881. (AP Photo)

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, is shown in 1884. (AP Photo)

People stand atop houses among ruins after flooding in Johnstown, Pa., May 30, 1889. (AP Photo)

This battlefield scene showing casualties following the Union Army attack, led by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, on Confederate forces led by Gen. Stonewall...

This is a 1848 portrait painting of former first lady Dolley Madison acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Nov. 1974. The po...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, wearing top hat, is shown with Union Army Gen. George B. McClellan, facing Lincoln, and McClellan's staff at Antietam,...

The Morse-Vail telegraph register, the first telegraph instrument, was used to receive the message

This picture of Abraham Lincoln appeared on the poster used in his presidential campaign in 1860. The original photo is in the Chicago Historical Soc...

Thomas Edison's incandescent lamp, the first practical light bulb, was developed in 1879. Edison used carbonized bamboo for the filament. (AP Photo)

U.S. Major Gen. William Shafter, with the Fifth Corps, enters Santiago, Cuba, on horseback during the Spanish American War in 1898. (AP Photo)

A physician is about to amputate a soldier's leg in a makeshift hospital camp site for the Union Army at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863, during the American Ci...

Survivors stand by homes destroyed when the South Fork Dam collapsed May 31 in Johnstown, Pa., in 1889. (AP Photo)

Thomas Edison is seen at the throttle of an electric locomotive built in 1882 by Edison. The others are not identified. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of Hotel Bartholdi, at the intersection of Broadway and 72nd Street, and various types of transportation in New York City in 18...

This is a copy of Jesse James' wedding portrait taken before his marriage in 1874. James fought in the American Civil War with a Confederate guerril...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant poses in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1864. Grant led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War, and accepted th...

Women and men ice skate on a lake in New York's Central Park in 1893. (AP Photo)

This general view of New York City shows a pastoral scene beside the East River in 1776. On Sept. 15, 1776, Gen. Howe, the British commander, saile...

President Abraham Lincoln visits with Union Gen. George McClellan at his headquarters in this Oct. 4, 1862 photo. Lincoln removed McClellen from comm...

U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant poses at Cold Harbor, Va., in June 1864 during the American Civil War. (AP Photo)