# Image credits
year | object | source | license
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1776 | Dunlap broadside | File:Dunlap Broadside (Declaration of Independence) - NARA - 301682.jpg | Public domain
1777 | thirteen-star flag | File:Old flag found in Betsy Ross house by Charies Mund (1890).png | Public domain
1778 | powder horn | File:Powder horn, engraved Jonathan Gardner His Horn 1776, Concord Museum | Public domain
1779 | whale-oil lamp | File:Whale oil lamp.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1780 | Windsor chair | File:Windsor Armchair MET 154654.jpg | CC0
1781 | field drum | File:Side Drum MET MUS590A.jpg | CC0
1782 | Great Seal of the United States | File:First Die of the Great Seal of the United States - NARA - 596742 (page 2).jpg | Public domain
1783 | Indian peace medal | File:Indian Peace Medal 1792 Obverse.jpg | Public domain
1784 | Franklin bifocals | File:Bifocals by Benjamin Franklin - Franklin Institue - DSC06605.JPG | Public domain
1785 | early US dollar (Continental dollar) | File:Continental Dollar, 1776, pewter - National Museum of American History - DSC00243.jpg | CC0
1786 | American rocking chair | File:Rocking Chair MET DT323838.jpg | CC0
1787 | US Constitution parchment | File:Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg | Public domain
1788 | The Federalist bound volume | File:The Federalist (1st ed, 1788, vol I, title page).jpg | Public domain
1789 | Washington inaugural button | Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 1065, brass "Long Live the President" GW button, ca. 1789, images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ad/web-large/70273.jpg | CC0 |
1790 | first US patent | File:United States Patent X1.png | Public domain
1791 | The Bill of Rights | File:Bill of Rights Pg1of1 AC.jpg | Public domain
1792 | first US Mint coin (1792 half disme) | File:1792 half disme obv.jpg | Public domain
1793 | cotton gin | File:Model Eli Whitney Cotton Gin 1794.jpg | Public domain
1794 | turnpike milestone | File:America's Highways 1776-1976 - Milepost 10 miles west of Philadelphia on the old Lancaster Turnpike.jpg | Public domain
1795 | Conestoga wagon | File:Conestoga Wagon, about 1840-1850 - National Museum of American History - DSC06101.JPG | CC0
1796 | American Cookery title page | Wikimedia Commons, File:American Cookery (1st Ed, 1796, cover).jpg | Public domain |
1797 | cast-iron plow | Wikimedia Commons, File:Plow display, Red Mill, Clinton, NJ.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 19th-century walking plow at the Red Mill Museum Village; stand-in for the Newbold cast-iron plow
1798 | contract musket (Springfield Model 1795) | File:Springfield Model 1795-NMAH-AHB2015q026641.jpg | Public domain
1799 | Washington mourning art | File:Thomas Clarke, Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, 1801, NGA 169538.jpg | CC0
1800 | Library of Congress | Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith, Main Reading Room dome, Thomas Jefferson Building, loc.gov/item/2007684367/ | Public domain, no known restrictions |
1801 | Finley chain suspension bridge | File:View of the Chain Bridge invented by James Finley Esqr. - Wm. Strickland del. ; B. Tanner sc. LCCN2015645685.jpg | Public domain
1802 | du Pont powder keg | Wikimedia Commons, File:Pigon & Wilks gunpowder barrel at the Citadel Hill (Fort George) gunpowder magazine.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 100 lb gunpowder keg dated 1858 in the Halifax Citadel magazine; stand-in for a du Pont keg, none freely licensed
1803 | Louisiana Purchase map | File:Geography 028 - Map of the Louisiana Purchase - 1803.jpg | Public domain
1804 | expedition compass | Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 8029, American surveyor's compass, ca. 1800, images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ad/web-large/238384.jpg | CC0 | period American surveyor's compass; stand-in for the Lewis and Clark pocket compass
1805 | apple seedling (Johnny Appleseed) | File:Johnny Appleseed 1.jpg | Public domain
1806 | ice harvesting | File:NSRW Ice Harvesting - sawing.jpg | Public domain
1807 | Fulton steamboat Clermont | File:Clermont replica.jpg | Public domain
1808 | beaver pelt | File:Photograph of Beaver Pelt - NARA - 2128191.jpg | Public domain
1809 | Knickerbocker History of New York | File:A History of New York (IA historyofnewyork01irvi).pdf page 1 | Public domain
1810 | circular saw blade | File:Sawmill Circular Saw Blade.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1811 | National Road marker | File:Milestone Cumberland 289 - National Road Museum - DSC02759.JPG | CC0
1812 | USS Constitution | File:USS Constitution fires a 17-gun salute.jpg | Public domain
1813 | power loom | File:Power Loom MOSI-11 Textile gallery 5597.JPG | CC BY 3.0
1814 | Star-Spangled Banner flag | File:Star-Spangled Banner in West Wing of Smithsonian Institution Building.jpg | Public domain
1815 | percussion cap firearm | File:Percussion Cap Pistol (9885371016).jpg | CC0
1816 | gas streetlamp | File:GasLight-Large.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1817 | Erie Canal construction | File:Building a feeder for Erie Canal, with boat (4419913253).jpg | No known copyright restrictions
1818 | tin peddler cart | File:The peddler's wagon - drawn by C.G. Bush. LCCN2004669981.jpg | Public domain
1819 | SS Savannah | File:Savannah (1819 steamship).jpg | Public domain
1820 | whaling harpoon | File:Harpoon head, whaling (AM 1968.12).jpg | CC BY 4.0
1821 | Saturday Evening Post | Wikimedia Commons, File:Saturday Evening Post Cover 1917 01 13.jpg | Public domain | cover of the January 13, 1917 issue; the 1821 founding-era issues have no clean scans
1822 | Lowell bobbin | Wikimedia Commons, File:Weaver in Weave Room (cd3123ca-155d-451f-678a-88b4cac9fae9).jpg, NPS photo, Lowell National Historical Park | Public domain | weaver at power looms in the Boott Cotton Mills weave room; looms and bobbins rather than a single bobbin
1823 | A Visit from St. Nicholas | File:A Visit From St Nicholas - Troy Sentinel.png | Public domain
1824 | Lafayette tour souvenir medal | File:Medal of the Marquis de Lafayette MET 25793.jpg | CC0
1825 | Erie Canal keg | File:WLA nyhistorical Keg with stand from Erie Canal celebration.jpg | CC BY 2.5
1826 | Last of the Mohicans | File:The Last of the Mohicans title page (1826).jpg | Public domain
1827 | Audubon Birds of America plate | File:The birds of America. (Livraison) 1, Plate I, Great American Cock Male; Vulgo Wild Turkey - btv1b53144013v.jpg | Public domain
1828 | Webster dictionary 1828 | File:Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language Title Page.jpg | Public domain
1829 | Burt typographer patent | File:Typographer patent 1829.jpg | Public domain
1830 | Tom Thumb locomotive replica | File:Tom Thumb-1.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1831 | McCormick reaper | File:McCormick Reaper, 1845.jpg | Public domain
1832 | horse-drawn streetcar | File:Horse-drawn streetcar no. 148 of a New York City system LCCN2004667717.jpg | Public domain
1833 | New York Sun penny press | File:The Sun (New York) N.1.jpg | Public domain
1834 | cast-iron parlor stove | File:Cast iron stove with iron on top Yarmouth County Museum.jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
1835 | abolitionist pamphlet | File:Declaration of sentiments and constitution of the American anti-slavery society (IA declarationofsen01amer).pdf page 1 | Public domain
1836 | Colt Paterson revolver | File:Colt Holster Model Paterson Revolver No.5-01.jpg | CC0
1837 | steel plow | Wikimedia Commons, File:Early John Deere plow.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | early John Deere plow, ca. 1845, made in Grand Detour, displayed at The Henry Ford Museum
1838 | Trail of Tears | Wikimedia Commons, File:A deep trail trace at Village Creek State Park in Wynne, Arkansas (9d6045d1-69d5-41b8-b1c2-ff475778bc76).JPG, NPS National Trails Office | Public domain | surviving trail trace on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; used in place of an artifact, per guidance
1839 | vulcanized rubber | Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 112774, rubber and silk overshoes, 1845-50, images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ci/web-large/1986.115.1ab_F.jpg | CC0 | rubber overshoes from the first decade of vulcanization
1840 | daguerreotype portrait | File:Woman with an Accordion daguerreotype MET DP225645.jpg | CC0
1841 | prairie schooner covered wagon | File:Covered wagon at the High Desert Museum Outside.jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
1842 | grain elevator Buffalo | File:Dart Elevator drawing.jpg | Public domain
1843 | Oregon Trail guidebook | File:Guidebooks to the Oregon Trail in the 1840s.png | Public domain
1844 | Morse telegraph | File:PSM V03 D423 Morse telegraph.jpg | Public domain
1845 | Knickerbocker baseball club | File:New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club, circa 1847.jpg | Public domain
1846 | Howe sewing machine | File:1846 - Elias Howe Jr.'s Sewing Machine Patent Model, from the National Museum of American History - NMAH-DOR2010-0923-000001.jpg | Public domain
1847 | 1847 US postage stamp | File:Stamp US 1847 5c.jpg | Public domain
1848 | gold pan | File:Pan, gold (AM 1926.156-1).jpg | CC BY 4.0
1849 | safety pin patent | File:Safety pin patent 4.jpg | Public domain
1850 | fugitive slave notice | File:Female Runaway Slave, Illustrated Reward Broadside, Alexandria, Virginia, 1851.jpg | Public domain
1851 | clipper ship Flying Cloud | File:Flying Cloud (ship, 1851)-The clipper ship era 1843-1869 (1910) frontispiece (14759524986).jpg | No known restrictions
1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin first edition | File:Uncle Tom's Cabin, vol 1 - title.png | Public domain
1853 | The Steinway | File:Grand Piano MET DT8236.jpg | CC0
1854 | Otis safety elevator demonstration | File:Elisha OTIS 1854.jpg | Public domain
1855 | Leaves of Grass first edition | File:Leaves of Grass (1855) cover.jpg | Public domain
1856 | Borden condensed milk can | File:Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk (front).jpg | CC BY 2.0
1857 | Gayetty toilet paper ad | File:GayettysMedicatedPaperAdvertisement.jpg | Public domain
1858 | Mason jar | File:Mason jar (26880076552).jpg | CC BY 2.0
1859 | Drake oil well derrick Titusville | File:First Oil Well.jpg | Public domain
1860 | Pony Express mochila | File:Pony Express mochila exhibit.jpg | Public domain
1861 | minie ball civil war bullet | File:Civil War Minie ball, standing.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1862 | greenback legal tender note 1862 | File:US-$1-LT-1862-Fr-16c.jpg | Public domain
1863 | Emancipation Proclamation broadside | File:Emancipation proclamation typeset signed.jpg | Public domain
1864 | 1864 two cent piece In God We Trust | File:1864 Large Motto Two-cent piece reverse.jpg | Public domain
1865 | Stetson Boss of the Plains hat | File:Boss of the Plains hat (cropped).jpg | No known restrictions
1866 | Vernors ginger ale bottle | File:Vernors ginger ale.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1867 | Alaska purchase Treasury warrant | File:United States Treasury warrant in the amount of $7,200,000 for the purchase of the Alaska Territory from the Russians, dated (AL+CA 506).jpg | Public domain
1868 | Sholes and Glidden typewriter | File:Remington No. 1 typewriter, made by Remington & Songs, Ilion, NY, 1873-1878, the first Sholes & Glidden model typewriter made by Remington - Wisconsin Historical Museum - DSC02802.JPG | CC0
1869 | golden spike Promontory | File:The Last Spike 1869.jpg | Public domain
1870 | 15th Amendment celebration print | File:The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 LCCN2003690776.jpg | Public domain
1871 | Nast Boss Tweed cartoon | File:Boss Tweed, Nast.jpg | Public domain
1872 | Yellowstone Moran painting | File:The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Thomas Moran.jpeg | Public domain
1873 | Levi's 501 | Wikimedia Commons, File:Copper-Riveted Blue Jeans -- after 1873 (53745883086).jpg | CC0 | period Levi Strauss and Co "Patent Riveted Clothing" trade label; no public domain 19th-century 501s exist
1874 | Glidden barbed wire patent | File:Patent Drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to Barbed Wire - NARA - 302051.jpg | Public domain
1875 | baseball glove | Wikimedia Commons, File:Baseball glove, 1904.jpg | Public domain | 1904 glove illustration; earliest freely licensed glove image found
1876 | Bell telephone liquid transmitter 1876 | File:Bell liquid telephone transmitter 1876.png | Public domain
1877 | Edison tinfoil phonograph | File:Edison's 1877 Cylinder Tinfoil Phonograph (photo 1 of 2) (Smithsonian) | Public domain
1878 | glass milk bottle | File:Bottle, milk (AM 616675).jpg | CC BY 4.0
1879 | Edison light bulbs 1879-1880 | File:Thomas Edison Lightbulbs 1879-1880.jpg | CC BY 3.0
1880 | early National cash register | File:Old National cash register "Muren" in Calico.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1881 | American Red Cross service flag poster | File:Have you a Red Cross service flag?.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1882 | Edison Pearl Street Jumbo dynamo | File:Edisons Jumbo dynamo in Pearl Street NYC.jpg | Public domain
1883 | Brooklyn Bridge under construction | File:Brooklyn Bridge Under Construction 1878.jpg | Public domain
1884 | Waterman fountain pen | File:Old waterman pen.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1885 | Home Insurance Building Chicago | File:Home Insurance Building.JPG | Public domain
1886 | drugstore soda fountain | File:Drugstore and soda fountain LCCN2013646069.jpg | Public domain
1887 | indoor baseball team Chicago | File:Chicago in door base ball team LCCN89712595.jpg | Public domain
1888 | Kodak camera patent drawing 1888 | File:George Eastman patent no 388,850.png | Public domain
1889 | coin operated phonograph (early jukebox) | File:First Juke Box in the World made by the Multi-Phonograph Company in Grand Rapids in 1904.jpg | CC0
1890 | Hollerith punch card | File:Hollerith Punched Card.jpg | Public domain
1891 | early basketball team | File:Ohio state basketball team 1899.jpg | Public domain
1892 | Ellis Island ship manifest | File:Ellis Island Passenger Manifest - 1903 - Italy.png | Public domain
1893 | 1893 Ferris wheel Chicago | File:World's Columbian Exposition Ferris Wheel, Chicago, United States, 1893..jpg | Public domain
1894 | Edison kinetoscope souvenir film strip | File:The souvenir strip of Edison Kinetoscope Eugene (i.e. Eugen) Sandow, the modern Hercules - taken and copyrighted by W.K.L. Dickson. LCCN2013645430.jpg | Public domain
1895 | Yellow Kid comic | File:The Yellow Kid Well here's to happy days, see - R.F. Outcault. LCCN00650391.jpg | Public domain
1896 | RFD rural mail delivery wagon | File:Photograph of Rural Free Delivery wagon with horse in Osseo, Minnesota (4011437780).jpg | No known restrictions
1897 | Jell-O package advertisement c. 1912 | File:Orange Jell-O (Culinary Ephemera - Gelatin and Tapioca, c. 1912).png | Public domain
1898 | Kellogg's corn flakes advertisement 1908 | File:Kellogg's TOASTED CORN FLAKES advertisement, United States, 1908.webp | Public domain
1899 | Gem paper clips | File:Buroklammern -- 2021 -- 6481.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1900 | Kodak Brownie camera | File:2014-365-233 The Basic Brownie Camera (14809795240).jpg | CC0
1901 | Curved dash Oldsmobile | File:Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout 1902.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1902 | Willis Carrier (air conditioning inventor, no clean apparatus photo found) | File:Willis Carrier 1915 (cropped).jpg | Public domain
1903 | Wright Flyer 1903 | File:Wright Flyer 1903.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1904 | Early teddy bear | File:Teddy bear early 1900s - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
1905 | Nickelodeon era movie theatre crowd, Yonge Street | File:CrowdsinfrontofYongeStreettheatre.jpg | Public domain
1906 | Victrola cranking phonograph cabinet | File:File-Victrola cranking phonograph-Mahogany case with hinged 4-sided lid (c8df4981-4b11-4a19-af41-377ab29b2401).jpg | Public domain
1907 | Thor electric washing machine | File:The Thor Electric Washing and Wringing Machine (cropped).jpg | Public domain
1908 | Ford Model T | File:Ford Model T fra 1908.jpg | Public domain
1909 | 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent | File:1909-S VDB Lincoln cent obverse.jpg | Public domain
1910 | Boy Scouts handbook 1910 (cover page) | File:Boy scouts of America - a handbook of woodcraft scouting, and life-craft.pdf | Public domain
1911 | Marmon Wasp (1911 Indy 500 winner) | File:1911 Marmon Wasp (27380094131).jpg | CC BY 2.0
1912 | Oreo cookies | File:Oreo-Two-Cookies.jpg | Public domain
1913 | Ford assembly line Highland Park 1913 | File:Ford assembly line - 1913.jpg | Public domain
1914 | First electric traffic signal corner, E 105th and Euclid Ave, Cleveland | File:E.105th and Euclid Avenue.jpg | Public domain
1915 | Coca-Cola contour bottle 1915 prototype | File:1915 proto hiRes.jpg | Public domain
1916 | Piggly Wiggly store, 1918 photo | File:Piggly Wiggly 1918.jpg | Public domain
1917 | M1917 Brodie helmet | File:M1917helmet.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1918 | 1918 influenza gauze mask, elevator operator NYC | File:Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - MASKS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST INFLUENZA. Elevator operator in New York City, N.Y., wearing mask - NARA - 45499395 (cropped).jpg | Public domain
1919 | hip flask | Wikimedia Commons, File:Flask, hip (AM 2003.99.13-2).jpg, photo Auckland Museum | CC BY 4.0 | WW1 soldier's aluminium hip flask engraved with battle names and dated 1915 to 1919; stand-in for a prohibition liquor flask
1920 | Women voting 1920 | File:Women's suffrage 1920 election 09 02 1920.jpg | Public domain
1921 | Marconi Type 106 crystal radio receiver | File:Marconi Type 106 crystal radio receiver.jpg | Public domain
1922 | Lincoln Memorial dedication 1922 | File:Lincoln Memorial Dedication with President Harding crop.jpg | Public domain
1923 | Q-tips pack | File:Q-Tips German Pack.jpg | CC0
1924 | Clarence Birdseye (frozen food pioneer, no clean product photo found) | File:Clarence Birdseye 1930.jpg | Public domain
1925 | The Great Gatsby first edition cover | File:The Great Gatsby Cover 1925 Retouched.jpg | Public domain
1926 | Goddard liquid fuel rocket 1926 | File:Dr Robert H Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926.jpg | Public domain
1927 | Spirit of St. Louis | File:Spirit of St Louis Smithsonian 01 2012 258.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1928 | Steamboat Willie | File:Mickey Mouse - Steamboat Willie (1928).jpg | Public domain (film PD since 2024)
1929 | Stock ticker machine (Edison, Smithsonian) | File:Thomas Edison stock ticker NMAH-JN2014-3625.jpg | Public domain
1930 | Clear adhesive tape rolls (cellophane tape) | File:Adhesive tapes clear.JPG | Public domain
1931 | Empire State Building | File:Empire State Building (aerial view).jpg | Public domain
1932 | Breadline, New York City, Great Depression | File:Depression, Breadlines-long line of people waiting to be fed, New York City - NARA - 196499.tif | Public domain
1933 | CCC workers | File:Civilian Conservation Corps workers (8043611757).jpg | Public domain
1934 | Pioneer Zephyr streamliner | File:Pioneer Zephyr.JPG | Public domain
1935 | Social Security card | File:Photograph of a Social Security Card - NARA - 595679.gif | Public domain
1936 | Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange | File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg | Public domain
1937 | Golden Gate Bridge | File:San Francisco (CA, USA), Golden Gate Bridge -- 2012 -- 4504.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1938 | Action Comics no. 1 / Superman | Wikimedia Commons, File:Massac County Courthouse 2022d.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | front view of the giant Superman statue in Metropolis, Illinois; stand-in for the comic cover, whose PD status is contested
1939 | Ruby slippers, Wizard of Oz, Smithsonian | File:Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Wizard of Oz 1938.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1940 | DuPont nylon stockings in original packaging | File:Stockings knit of Du Pont Nylon original packaging DSCF2245.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1941 | Willys Jeep WWII | File:Jeep Willys WWII (38977371164).jpg | CC0
1942 | War Ration Book One | File:War Ration Book One - National Museum of American History - DSC00067.jpg | Public domain
1943 | We Can Do It Rosie poster | File:We Can Do It! NARA 535413 - Restoration 2.jpg | Public domain
1944 | Higgins boat LCVP | File:Higgins boat - LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) - Flickr - Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1945 | Trinitite | File:Trinitite-pieces3.jpg | CC BY 3.0
1946 | ENIAC computer | File:Eniac Aberdeen.jpg | Public domain
1947 | Replica of first point-contact transistor | File:Replica-of-first-transistor.jpg | Public domain
1948 | Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 | File:Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 - MIT Museum - DSC03766.JPG | CC0
1949 | RCA 45 rpm record and phonograph 1949 | File:RCA 45 rpm phonograph and record Arthur Fiedler 1949.JPG | Public domain
1950 | Diners Club card (modern card, no licensed vintage photo found) | File:Diners Club Regular Japan 2016.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1951 | 1950s television set | File:TV Nordmende alt.jpg | Public domain
1952 | Mr. Potato Head 1952 | File:Mr Potato Head 1952.jpg | Public domain
1953 | 1953 Chevrolet Corvette | File:1953 Chevrolet Corvette front.jpg | CC0
1954 | First Salk polio vaccine shipment arriving at Schiphol | File:Eerste salk-vaccin voor polio arriveert op Schiphol, Bestanddeelnr 908-9046.jpg | CC0
1955 | Rosa Parks bus, Henry Ford Museum | File:Rosa Parks Bus.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1956 | Interstate highway shield sign | File:Interstate 95 begins southbound sign at US border.jpg | Public domain
1957 | On the Road scroll manuscript | File:Kerouac On the Road scroll - Flickr - emdot.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1958 | Replica of first integrated circuit (Kilby) | File:Replica IC.png | CC BY-SA 4.0
1959 | Vintage Barbie doll (Gay Parisienne, 1959 outfit) | File:The "Gay Parisienne" Bisque Barbie Doll - DPLA - 8afdcfc39cc137d9f78a1a9178ebd5ac (page 1).jpg | Public domain
1960 | Enovid oral contraceptive bottle | File:Bottle for Enovid 10 mg Oral Contraceptive - DPLA - 0cc9d42b69b6fd3d586205f5831cade0.jpg | CC BY 4.0
1961 | Freedom 7 Mercury capsule | File:Mercury Space Capsule Freedom 7 (10438602474).jpg | CC0
1962 | Silent Spring | Wikimedia Commons, File:1955. Ford tri-motor spraying DDT. Western spruce budworm control project. Powder River control unit, OR. (32213742634).jpg, USDA Forest Service photo by R.B. Pope | Public domain | 1955 aerial DDT spraying, the book's subject; stand-in for the first edition, no clean book photo found
1963 | March on Washington 1963 program | File:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - Lincoln Memorial Program 1.jpg | Public domain
1964 | LBJ signing Civil Rights Act | File:Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964.jpg | Public domain
1965 | 1965 Ford Mustang | File:1965 Ford Mustang Convertible Classic-Gala 2021 1X7A0275.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1966 | Star Trek communicator replica | File:20090704-1971 StarTrekTOSCommunicatorReplica.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1967 | Tie-dye shirt | File:Tie dye spiral.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1968 | Earthrise Apollo 8 | File:NASA Earthrise AS08-14-2383 Apollo 8 1968-12-24.jpg | Public domain
1969 | Apollo 11 lunar boot on surface | File:AS11-40-5880 - Apollo 11 - Apollo 11 Mission image - Lunar surface with Astronaut boot in field of view - NARA - 16685067.jpg | Public domain
1970 | Earth Day 1970 flag ceremony | File:Demonstrations. Protestors at the National Capital Region Earth Day flag ceremony in Washington DC. (14bcf26d172445cf9d03325dcf19d9dd).jpg | Public domain
1971 | At sign | File:At sign.svg | Public domain
1972 | Atari Pong arcade cabinet | File:Atari Pong arcade game cabinet.jpg | CC BY 2.0
1973 | Martin Cooper with DynaTAC prototype | File:2007Computex e21Forum-MartinCooper.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1974 | UPC barcode (Wrigley gum code) | File:UPC-A-036000291452.svg | CC0
1975 | Altair 8800 computer | File:2019-08-04 Altair 8800 computer.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1976 | Apple I computer | File:Apple Computer 1 (Apple I) from Smithsonian National Museum of American History.png | CC0
1977 | Voyager Golden Record cover | File:The Sounds of Earth Record Cover - GPN-2000-001978.jpg | Public domain
1978 | Paper airline ticket | File:AA paper ticket.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1979 | VisiCalc on screen | File:Visicalc.png | Public domain
1980 | Post-it note | File:Sticky Note on a white background.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1981 | IBM PC 5150 | File:IBM PC 5150.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1982 | Thriller | Wikimedia Commons, File:Michael Jackson Thriller Jacket, Grammy Museum 2020.jpg, photo Mic JohnsonLP | CC BY 2.0 | signed red Thriller leather jacket on exhibit at the Grammy Museum; stand-in for the album art
1983 | Motorola DynaTAC 8000X | File:DynaTAC8000X.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1984 | Macintosh 128K | File:Computer macintosh 128k, 1984 (all about Apple onlus).jpg | CC BY 3.0
1985 | Air Jordan 1 sneakers | File:Air Jordan 1 Banned.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1986 | Challenger STS-51-L mission patch | File:Aufnaeher STS-51-L Mission.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1987 | Prozac fluoxetine capsules | File:Prozac pills cropped.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1988 | Contact lens on finger | File:Contact lens.JPG | CC BY-SA 3.0
1989 | Simpsons couch | Flickr, "Simpsons in couch" by Desiii, https://www.flickr.com/photos/70274636@N00/1064593435 | CC BY-SA 2.0 | replica couch photo set with family figures from The Simpsons Movie theater promo, 2007; photo license clean
1990 | Curb cut wheelchair ramp | File:Curb cut for wheelchair ramp (DSC 3500).jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
1991 | Flannel shirt | File:Flannel Shirt For Abi.jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
1992 | Mall of America | File:Mall of America Exterior.jpg | CC BY 4.0
1993 | Mosaic browser | Flickr, "The PS/2 family" by Marcin Wichary, https://www.flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/2319873436 | CC BY 2.0 | beige IBM PS/2 desktops with CRT monitors; era stand-in, no free Mosaic screenshot exists
1994 | CD-ROM close-up | File:Rainbow on CD-ROM.jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
1995 | Plain cardboard shipping box | File:Caja de carton.png | CC BY-SA 4.0
1996 | PalmPilot Professional | File:PalmPilot Professional.jpg | CC BY-SA 3.0
1997 | Netflix red envelope | File:Netflixenvelope.jpg | CC BY 2.5
1998 | Google garage | File:Google garage.JPG | CC BY-SA 3.0
1999 | CD-R spindle | File:CD-R Spindle.jpg | Public domain
2000 | Votomatic punch card voting machine | File:Votomatic III open.jpg | CC0
2001 | 9/11 ground zero flag (FEMA photo) | File:FEMA - 5399 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 09-28-2001 in New York.jpg | Public domain
2002 | White iPod earbuds | File:IPod earphones.jpg | CC BY 2.0
2003 | iPod classic | File:Ipod-classic-6th-gen.jpg | Public domain
2004 | the profile (Facebook) | Wikimedia Commons, File:Facebook Like sign.jpg, photo Kevin Krejci | CC BY 2.0 | thumbs-up sign at Facebook headquarters, 1601 Willow Road; object-world stand-in for the profile page
2005 | YouTube Silver Play Button | File:YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg | Public domain
2006 | The first tweet | Recreated text card (tweet text and metadata, own render) | Own work
2007 | Original iPhone | File:IPhone First Generation 8GB (3680480234).jpg | CC BY-SA 2.0
2008 | The foreclosure sign | File:Sign of the Times-Foreclosure.jpg (Wikimedia Commons, by respres) | CC BY 2.0 | object changed from Hope poster, copyrighted art with no licensable photo
2009 | The Dreamliner | File:Boeing 787 first flight.jpg | CC BY 2.0
2010 | iPhone 4 | File:IPhone 4, model A1332-6489.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2011 | iPhone 4S | File:IPhone 4s.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2012 | Tesla Model S | File:20180630 Tesla Model S 70D 2015 midnight blue left front.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2013 | Remote with Netflix button | File:Philips remote control with a Netflix button, Finsterwolde (2019) 01.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2014 | Amazon Echo | File:Alexa Amazon Echo Smart Speaker - Flashing Blue Ring (Creative Commons) (51049059491).jpg | CC BY 2.0
2015 | Falcon 9 first stage landed at LZ-1 | File:Falcon 9 first stage at LZ-1(two).jpg | CC0
2016 | AirPods first generation | File:AirPods (cropped).jpg | CC BY 2.0
2017 | MeToo protest sign | File:Can You Hear Me Now? -MeToo (39787332552).jpg | CC BY 2.0
2018 | Ring video doorbell | File:Ring video doorbell.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2019 | Impossible Whopper | File:Impossible Whopper 1.jpg | CC0
2020 | Sourdough starter jar | File:Sourdough starter.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2021 | CDC COVID-19 vaccination record card | File:CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2022 | the chat box (ChatGPT) | Wikimedia Commons, File:Mobile phone with ChatGPT on yellow background (52917075654).jpg, photo Jernej Furman | CC BY 2.0 | phone displaying chat.openai.com; wordmark below threshold of originality per Commons
2023 | Ozempic semaglutide pen | File:Ozempic 3ml.jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2024 | April 2024 solar eclipse glasses | File:2024 April Solar Eclipse Glasses (1).jpg | CC BY-SA 4.0
2025 | Waymo Jaguar I-Pace robotaxi | File:Waymo Jaguar I-Pace in San Francisco 2023 dllu.jpg | CC BY 4.0