The Scientific Revolution inspired and “jumpstarted” the Enlightenment. It could be argued that the Scientific Revolution itself started far earlier than the 17th Century. Perhaps it started with Roger Bacon’s Opus Majus written in 1267, but not published for mass…
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There are many great inventions that have vastly improved our quality of life. Many more have helped human beings over come generational challenges. Without them, the human race would probably have become extinct a long time ago. But the few…
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Inventions seem like they would come from the brilliant minds of men educated at the best universities with years of experience in a particular field of science or engineering. While that is often the case, great ideas can occur at…
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When the name Thomas Edison is mentioned, no one asks who he was. The man, born in Milan, Ohio, and once called “addled” by his teachers, is a household name worldwide, and was responsible for some of the biggest innovations…
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Robots and sex have been discussed and debated for more than a century. The first film to showcase a “robot” was also a sexy love story! Back in 1896, the French movie “L’Eve Futur” (“The Future Eve”) featured a storyline…
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The Airbus A300 was a product of French/European pride and American requirements for practicality and economy. The story of the A300 has its roots in the second half of the twentieth century when, in 1966, an American Airlines executive, Frank…
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How interesting is this! A off-shoot of the Philadelphia Experiment, the Montauk Project was headed up and funded by an unknown source. Researchers theorise that the ‘anonymous source(s)’ were Nazis or even that it was funded by Nazi gold. However,…
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Airbus Industrie, a consortium of European aircraft manufacturers which had provided the first serious competition to the US with its original widebody, twin-engined A-300, had quickly concluded that its success could only be attained with an expanded product line capable…
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ClockA clock is an instrument for measuring time. True clocks have an announcing or striking mechanism that sounds after each set interval of time, usually by ringing a bell. A silent clock without a striking mechanism is traditionally known as…
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The Airbus A380 is currently the largest plane in the world. It has a length of 73m or 239 ft. 3 in, a height of 24.1 m or 79 ft. 7 in, and a wingspan of 79.8 m or 261…
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