Philip Ashton: The Castaway
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2023
Just three years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe , a youngster from Massachusetts suffered a fate similar to the pro...
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Jimmy Doolittle And The First Blind Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2023
People assume that its easier to fly an airplane during the day because we can look out of the window and see where we are going, the same w...
The Oldest Functioning Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2023
The Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1, or LCS-1, is a large, hollow, aluminum sphere with a precisely defined cross-section that has been on Eart...
The Telescope That Got Shot
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2023
In the early 1960s, as NASA geared up towards space exploration, engineers and astronomers at the federal organization felt the need for a l...
The 1967 Experiment That Proved Anyone Can Design a Nuclear Weapon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2023
On 16 October 1964, China detonated a 22-kiloton nuclear weapon device at the Lop Nur test site, becoming the fifth nuclear power state in t...
George Spencer Millet: Death by Kisses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
George Spencer Millet must be rolling in his grave for his family chose to include this nugget of information in his gravestone: “Lost life ...
Operation Sandblast: The First Submarine Circumnavigation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2023
In the early 16th century, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan embarked on a historic expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific, ...
Douglas Crofut: Suicide by Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2023
On January 22, 1981, a 38-year-old industrial radiographer named Douglas Crofut was admitted to a hospital in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the United...
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line: The World’s First Airline
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2023
Barely a decade after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, the world’s first scheduled passenger airline service bega...
Daniel Sickles's Leg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2023
One of the most visited exhibits at Washington's National Museum of Health and Medicine is the shattered leg bones of an American Civil ...
