Tag Archives: History
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Battle of the Beams- The Forgotten Tech War
On the afternoon of September 7, 1940, the people of London heard a sound they had been dreading for years: the ominous drone of aero engines. High above, the sky filled with waves of German bombers, and a torrent of high explosives and incendiaries began to rain down on the British capital. The bombardment continued… Read More »
WWII’s Most Absurd Secret Weapons
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a massive Allied invasion force comprising some 5,000 ships, 1,200 aircraft, and 160,000 troops steamed across the English Channel towards the beaches of Normandy. It was the opening act of Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the battle that would finally secure an… Read More »
9 Leonardo Da Vinci’s Lesser-Known Inventions
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In 18th-century France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier sought to promote the consumption of potatoes,…
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There were once supersonic passenger planes that could reach speeds of up to 1,354 mph. In…
Who Invented the Submarine?
It is the ultimate naval weapon. Lurking unseen beneath the waves, it can travel the world’s oceans at will and appear without warning, unleashing a deadly salvo of ship-killing torpedoes or world-ending nuclear missiles before melting away back into the depths. It is, of course, the submarine. But the stealthy, ultra-sophisticated nuclear submarines of today… Read More »