Photo credits
The real photos in TIME SHOCK come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA). We cut each object out onto a transparent background; those cut-outs are shared under the same licence as the original photo. Thank you to every photographer below.
An Anglo-Saxon king is buried in a ship at Sutton Hoo with his iron helmet
Photo: user:Geni (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Big Ben, the great bell of the Westminster clock tower, first rings out
Photo: Julian Herzog (Website) (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Building starts on Hadrian’s Wall across northern England
Photo: Benjamin Smith (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Emile Berliner patents the gramophone, playing flat discs
Photo: Emil Berliner (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose sinks in the Solent
Photo: Bob Harvey (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Isaac Singer patents his practical sewing machine
Photo: Isaac Singer (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
John Logie Baird demonstrates television in London
Photo: Matt Brown (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Karl Benz patents the first petrol-powered car, a three-wheeler
Photo: DaimlerChrysler AG (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
King John agrees to Magna Carta
Photo: Original authors were the barons and King John of England. Uploaded by Earthsound. (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mount Vesuvius erupts and buries the Roman town of Pompeii
Photo: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prehistoric artists paint horses and bulls on the walls of the Lascaux caves in France
Photo: Unknown (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stephenson’s Rocket wins the Rainhill locomotive trials
Photo: Les Chatfield (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tanks are used in battle for the first time, at the Somme
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014 (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The "Brown Bess" musket becomes the British Army’s standard gun
Photo: The Smithsonian Institution (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer" of bronze gears, is made
Photo: Joyofmuseums (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Apple II home computer goes on sale
Photo: Rama & Musée Bolo (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bayeux Tapestry is stitched to tell the story of the Norman Conquest
Photo: Myrabella (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The BlackBerry Bold 9000, with its full keyboard, launches
Photo: Zuzu (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The boy king Tutankhamun is buried with his golden death mask
Photo: Egyptiankeng (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The classic red K6 telephone box is introduced across Britain
Photo: .mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table{background-color:#f0f0ff;box-sizing:border-box;fo (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Colosseum in Rome opens with 100 days of games
Photo: Nicholas Hartmann (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first commercially successful typewriter goes on sale, with the QWERTY layout
Photo: Tony Casillo (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first iPhone goes on sale in the USA
Photo: Carl Berkeley from Riverside California (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first portable CD player, the Sony D-50 Discman, goes on sale
Photo: Norbert Schnitzler (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first Sony Walkman personal cassette player goes on sale
Photo: Binarysequence (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first written recipe for gunpowder appears, in a Chinese military book
Photo: PericlesofAthens (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The giant sarsen stones of Stonehenge are raised
Photo: Sumit Surai (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Gutenberg Bible is printed with movable type
Photo: NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The hand-cranked Gatling gun is patented
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Inca build Machu Picchu high in the Andes
Photo: .mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table{background-color:#f0f0ff;box-sizing:border-box;fo (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The iPhone 4 launches, with the first front camera for FaceTime
Photo: K2025 (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The iPhone 7 launches, the first iPhone with no headphone socket
Photo: Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Lewis chessmen are carved from walrus ivory
Photo: National Museums Scotland (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Motorola StarTAC, one of the first flip phones, goes on sale
Photo: rfdigitalwpg (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) launches in America
Photo: Evan-Amos (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nintendo Game Boy goes on sale in Japan
Photo: .mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table{background-color:#f0f0ff;box-sizing:border-box;fo (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nintendo Switch, a console you can take out of the dock, launches
Photo: Evan-Amos (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nintendo Wii, played by waving a remote, launches
Photo: Evan-Amos (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nokia N95 slider phone, with a 5-megapixel camera and GPS, goes on sale
Photo: Asim18 (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The penny-farthing bicycle, with its giant front wheel, takes off
Photo: Matti Blume (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Polaroid SX-70 folding instant camera goes on sale
Photo: Thomas Backa from Turku, Finland (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Rosetta Stone is carved with the same decree in three scripts
Photo: Hans Hillewaert (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Rover "safety bicycle", the shape of bikes today, goes on sale in Coventry
Photo: Jonathan Cardy (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The see-through iMac G3 launches
Photo: Alterations by David Fuchs; original by Rama, licensed CC-by-SA (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The spinning jenny is invented, letting one worker spin many threads at once
Photo: Betty Longbottom (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York
Photo: William Warby (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Super Nintendo goes on sale in Japan (as the Super Famicom)
Photo: JCD1981NL (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Supermarine Spitfire makes its first flight
Photo: ChowellsNoise reduction and shadows lifted by Diliff. (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Tamagotchi virtual pet goes on sale in Japan
Photo: Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca, mail: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com] (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The tea clipper Cutty Sark is launched
Photo: mattbuck (category) (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Titanic sinks on its first voyage
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The ultra-thin Motorola RAZR V3 flip phone launches
Photo: Raimond Spekking (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Viking Oseberg ship is buried in Norway with two women
Photo: Vassia Atanassova - Spiritia (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The ZX Spectrum, Britain’s favourite home computer, goes on sale
Photo: Bill Bertram (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Thomas Edison demonstrates a long-lasting light bulb
Photo: Daderot (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Thomas Newcomen builds the first working steam engine, to pump water from mines
Photo: Andy Dingley (scanner) (cropped by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
VHS video tapes and recorders go on sale for the first time, in Japan
Photo: R. Henrik Nilsson (cut-out by FLUNG Live) · CC BY-SA 4.0
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