Robots To Clear Baltic Seabed Of WWII Mines
Retro Sea Minevia BactecIn a dangerous legacy of the world's deadliest conflict, 150,000 World War Two-era sea mines litter the Baltic Sea. The danger these bombs pose to a proposed gas pipeline has...
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Hiroshima MushroomMathew LucasIn the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped...
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How A Battleship WorksClick here to see a larger version of this image.S.W. Clatworthy, Popular ScienceThe age of battleships is long over. The United States built the USS Missouri, the nation's last...
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Waco CG-4A Hadrian Glider Rendered By Dassault SystèmesIn the background is the old blueprint. The ink did not keep well for posterity, and has run together making it hard to read.Dassault SystèmesThe...
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The Destroyer In Popular SciencePopular ScienceThe technologies used in the June 6th, 1944 invasion of Normandy have captivated writers and readers of Popular Science for a long time. Here are some of...
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Bomb EffectsFrom the September 1945 issue of Popular Science.Popular ScienceOn August 6th, 1945, the American B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. It was...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Tank Before World War II
New Giant TanksThe answer, it turns out, is "War Brutes."Popular ScienceIn 1935, Popular Science announced the age of the tank with these words: “Fast, powerful land battleships may speed up the net...
View ArticleThis Is The Vintage Plane Harrison Ford Crashed
Ryan PT-22, Sacramento, 1942Bill Larkins, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0Yesterday, in a flash of silver and yellow, a relic from an old war crashed to earth. From the broken body of this vintage...
View ArticleWas the V-2 a Nazi weapon?
The phrase “Nazi V-2” is thrown around a lot, probably because it’s the simplest way to describe the rocket Germany launched against European cities towards the end of the Second World War. But that’s...
View ArticleThe Fighters That Inspired 'Star Wars,' And Their Modern Descendents
During George Lucas’s childhood in the 1950s, World War II was still very much a part of popular culture despite being safely in the rearview mirror. Action heroes frequented the silver screen in large...
View ArticleI Defend My Backyard With A Bottle Bazooka
I’ve always wanted my own bazooka, but my neighbors might not look upon that too favorably. So instead, I satisfied my craving with a bazookalike contraption capable of launching plastic bottles clear...
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Technology Even viewed as abstractions the data have a forceful impact. In the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight years ago today an...
View ArticleHow A Battleship Works [Vintage Infographic]
Technology From 1943, a very detailed look at an obsolete war machine The age of battleships is long over. The United States built the USS Missouri, the nation's last battleship, in 1944, even as that...
View ArticleReverse-Engineering The Technology Of D-Day
Technology For the 70th anniversary of the invasion, one French firm is making digital versions of World War II machines and infrastructure. The June 6th, 1944 invasion of Normandy by British,...
View ArticleD-Day In Popular Science
Technology 70 years ago, we were all over the most exciting military tech news of the time The technologies used in the June 6th, 1944 invasion of Normandy have captivated writers and readers of...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Debating The Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings
Technology "By splitting the atom, man may have united the world." On August 6th, 1945, the American B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Tank Before World War II
Technology How Popular Science covered tank design between the great world wars In 1935, Popular Science announced the age of the tank with these words: “Fast, powerful land battleships may speed up...
View ArticleThis Is The Vintage Plane Harrison Ford Crashed
Aviation Popular Science praised it in 1943 Yesterday, in a flash of silver and yellow, a relic from an old war crashed to earth. From the broken body of this vintage World War II trainer, Harrison...
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From Our Blogs: Vintage Space The phrase “Nazi V-2” is thrown around a lot, but is it correct? The phrase “Nazi V-2” is thrown around a lot, but is it correct?
View ArticleThese fighter jets inspired the aircraft in 'Star Wars'
Entertainment From WWII to long ago and far, far away. Star Wars aircraft and their galactic battles were directly inspired by WWII dogfighters. Here we match starfighters with the WWII aircraft that...
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