Photo credits

Every photo comes from Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia and appears in the order it was taken. Images are resized for the web; CC BY-SA images are shared under the same license.

  1. View from the Window at Le Gras c. 1826 · Nicéphore Niépce · Public domain
  2. The Horse in Motion 1878 · Eadweard Muybridge · Public domain
  3. Hand mit Ringen 1895 · Wilhelm Röntgen · Public domain
  4. First flight 1903 · John T. Daniels · Public domain
  5. Migrant Mother 1936 · Dorothea Lange · Public domain
  6. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941 · Ansel Adams · Public domain
  7. ENIAC programmers 1946 · U.S. Army · Public domain
  8. Albert Einstein 1951 · Arthur Sasse · Public domain
  9. Photo 51 1952 · Rosalind Franklin & Raymond Gosling · Public domain
  10. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 1963 · Don Hunstein · Public domain
  11. Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington 1963 · U.S. National Archives · Public domain
  12. Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston 1965 · Associated Press · Public domain
  13. Bill English preparing for “The Mother of All Demos” 1968 · SRI International · CC BY-SA 3.0
  14. Earthrise 1968 · William Anders, NASA · Public domain
  15. Abbey Road 1969 · Iain Macmillan · Public domain
  16. Buzz Aldrin on the Moon 1969 · Neil Armstrong, NASA · Public domain
  17. Intel 4004 chip layout 1971 · Intel; photo by Wolfgang Stief · CC0
  18. The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 · Yuriy Somov, RIA Novosti · CC BY-SA 3.0
  19. Pale Blue Dot 1990 · NASA/JPL, Voyager 1 · Public domain
  20. The first photo shared from a phone 1997 · Philippe Kahn · Public domain
  21. Steve Jobs presents the iPhone 2007 · Blake Patterson · CC BY 2.0
  22. Webb’s First Deep Field 2022 · NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI · Public domain
  23. Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula 2022 · NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI · Public domain
  24. Starship booster caught by the launch tower 2024 · Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0
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