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Two exploration teams raced to the South Pole. Only one made it out alive.
A routine press photo-op in 1937 ended up recording the explosion of the greatest airship ever built.
In 1894, a French scientist used a camera to solve a physics problem.
People usually associate the birth of photography with Louis Daguerre’s Daguerreotype. His process became the first widespread method of photography after France revealed it to the world on August 19, 1839. But there were actually multiple inventors of photography, and one of them was an amateur French tinkerer named Hippolyte Bayard. Even before Daguerre's process was revealed, Bayard had achieved photographic results.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began with a photograph.
Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like.
