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Portrait of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) taken by Mathew Brady in 1851, about ten years before the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Robert E. Lee (center) with his son Custis Lee (left) and aide Walter H. Taylor (right), photograph by M. B. Brady & Co., April 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) in his Confederate general uniform, 1863.

Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War. Painting by Thomas Nast.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) in uniform as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers, portrait by William Edward West, 1838.

A home assembled amplifier featured as the cover illustration of the magazine Electronics World, September 1959, Volume 62 Number 3.

A 1992 photograph of a drafter working at a cimputer and using Computer-aided design (CAD). CAD is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to...

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube, monitor Cern 57503) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server on the World Wide Web. It is shown here as displayed in 2005 at Microcosm, the public science museum at CERN where Berners-Lee was...

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was formed in London in 1887 to promote the exhibition of decorative arts alongside fine arts. The Society's exhibitions, which were held annually at the New Gallery from 1888 to 1890, and roughly every...

A photograph of the first cabinet members of Russia's Provisional Government of 1917, which replaced Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) from March that year. The first prime minister is seated on the far left, Prince Georgii Lvov (1861-1925...