A view looking north of the upper locks of the Gatun Locks. In 1893, De Lesseps was arrested and convicted of fraud and maladministration, he died two years later age 89

Signs warned motorists to exercise 'great caution' until The Devil's Elbow was bypassed in the 1960s

Porters helping holidaymakers with their luggage at Waterloo Station, London, in 1913, just a year before the start of World War One

Located south of the 2,198ft Cairnwell Pass, motorists were relieved when The Devil's Pass was bypassed

A chemistry lesson in full flow in a mud-walled classroom, with a small board covered in equations

A captivating residential hillside in Kabul is adorned by brightly coloured trees and foliage

Staff pushed burning embers off the cliff face in Yosemite National Park (pictured) before the practice was banned in 1968

In January 1968, the National Park Service ordered the spectacle (shown) be discontinued due to the overwhelming number of visitors it attracted.

The Grotte de Lascaux was discovered in 1940. It's a gallery of more than 600 paintings and 1,500 engravings that had lain hidden underground for more than 17,000 years.

Crowds watch Queen Elizabeth II being driven along The Devil's Elbow to Balmoral by Prince Philip in 1967

Crossing the Devil’s Elbow, in 1905

1898 this Pic showing Indian Frontier Rising Wounded Sick Officers Men at RawalPindi Railway Station.

Another Potrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Workers cast concrete arms and reflectors for lampposts at the construction site of the Gatun Locks between the Atlantic and the Pacific

President Theodore Roosevelt operating a steam shovel at Culebra Cut, Panama Canal - the U.S. were rewarded with the rights to the canal in 1903

The S.S. Kronland crossed through the Panama in 1915, pulled by the U.S. Gaton tug boat. The canal now passes around 15,000 ships a year

Huge queues watch as children ride in colourful cars round a track flanked with a giant rocket in 1955

Characters dance in the Disneyland Parade done as a preview for television, on the first day of operation in July 1955

123 years old one stretch of the Mount Lowe Railway is 5,606ft high- so passengers probably spent their time hoping that it didn't break down

The Mount Lowe Railway, which now stands in ruins in Los Angeles, California, was the third in a series of scenic mountain railways built in America to boost tourism in the area

Opening in 1893, the line became the first electric railroad ever built in the United States - but closed down for good 45 years later

The service stretched across seven miles, starting in Altadena, at a station named Mountain Junction, and travelling along Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain

Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street, Manhattan. 1935