Britain’s Secret Fuel Pipelines
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2021
How do airline companies procure fuel for their fleet? In the UK at least, the fuel comes through pipelines delivered directly at the airpor...
Clarence E. Willard: The Man of Could Grow at Will
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2021
In 1913, while in England, Clarence E. Willard had to renew his passport in order to travel, and most importantly, in order for him to retur...
Propeller Driven Railways
Kaushik Patowary
May 31, 2021
A locomotive can derive power from many different sources. The earliest locomotives were driven by steam. Then came electric trains powered ...
The Ni'ihau Incident
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2021
Ni'ihau is the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, privately owned since the 19th century and which would hav...
The Richest Ancient Shipwreck
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2021
In 1975, a fishing boat working in the southwestern sea of Korean peninsula, near the Shinan Islands, caught six pieces of Chinese ceramic w...
The Air Conditioned Village
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2021
Air conditioning is ubiquitous these days, but not too long ago cool air was considered a luxury available only in commercial businesses. Th...
Mr. Bean’s Failed Assassination Attempt of The Queen
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2021
The closest Mr. Bean came to killing the Queen was when he headbutted the head of the British Royal family. The Queen was hurt but survived...
Why Apollo Astronauts Lobbed Grenades on The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2021
The Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s provided scientists with an exciting playground upon which to conduct experiments never performed i...
Canal of the Pharaohs: The Forerunner to The Suez Canal
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2021
The Suez Canal may be a marvel of modern engineering, but there is nothing modern about digging canals. Navigable waterways have been dug si...
Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2021
In the late 1930s, a German chemist named Otto Bayer synthesized a new organic polymer called polyurethane. Over the decades polyurethane fo...
