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Twenty-Five Years Before the Wright Brothers Took to the Skies, This Flying Machine Captivated...
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoCharles F. Ritchel’s flying machine made a sound like a buzzsaw as its pilot turned a hand crank to...
Howzat! Cambridge University engineers recreate Venn’s historic bowling machine
Press Association News via AOL· 6 days agoHe has previously led teams of investigators on the Channel 4 shows Dambusters...Of The Zeppelins,...
Carole Hopson: How did Bessie Coleman, daughter of an enslaved woman, become a queen?
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoBorn in 1892, Coleman was an 11-year-old who picked cotton and worked as a domestic alongside her...
Rise of the Nanomachines
The New Yorker· 3 days agoAt the time, Santos was at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Paris, studying genes that allow some bacteria to live longer than others. One...
My Date With One of the Last Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Bands
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThe San Fernando Valley is the kind of place where the A/C is on year-round and almost everything is...
Samuel Alito's new opinion suggests he's "feeling the heat"—Legal analyst
Newsweek· 22 hours agoConservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's new opinion on a gun law suggests he's "feeling...
Tech designed to prevent runway collisions tested in Washington
The Columbian· 5 hours agoOn Friday morning, the pilot of a Boeing 757 airliner approached Yakima Airport in Central...
15 Things Only Gen Xers Will Recognize on Sight
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoLaunched in 1998, it resembled a pager, but allowed you to hear (not just read) a phone message...
Empire Records' Johnny Whitworth offers a satisfyingly retro take on the mad scientist in The...
Popverse· 4 days agoOne of the most delightful qualities of the film, in which chaos ensues after Sam convinces the...
122 questions for kids to get them to open up
TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhat is your favorite outfit and why? Do you have a favorite song? If you could grow wings and fly, where would you go? Which pizza topping is best? Do...
