Blackboard Gallery

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, June 28, 1958

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, June 28, 1958. Charles Lundquist (right) gives a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency to Hermann Oberth (left) and Wernher Von Braun (center). Von Braun was an active proponent of utilizing space stations as "base camps" to other planets and satellites. Hermann Oberth was Von Braun's mentor and was a pioneer in suggesting that space stations would be essential if humans wished to travel to other planets. Charles Lundquist was the chief of the Physics and Astrophysics branch within the former Research Projects Division at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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The Education Problem, 1870. Artist: Joseph Swain

The Education Problem, 1870. Forster, the schoolboy on the left had earlier in the year introduced the governments Bill for Public Elementary Education in England and Wales. Here, he is seen showing Britannia, in the form of a matronly schoolmistress, that he has solved his problems. The problems were that all the different religious factions had been fighting about the management of the schools, the influence and control that different factions would be able to exercise, and the religious content of the curriculum. Eventually, an amendment stating that no religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught was accepted and the Bill passed into law. From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 16, 1870

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