New Year's Eve early-edition "Though the first functioning two-wheeler

"Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817

reduced the tense showdown between great powers to this image of children on a hillside watching a plane gliding in

George Harrison

Since her first illustration for The Times in 2009

with its manifold appetites

New Year's Eve early-edition "Though the first functioning two-wheelerTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came