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Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens
Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...
The Phare du Monde Tower
The Phare du Monde tower, proposed for the 1937 Paris Exhibition. The structure was designed for the World’s Fair in Paris, but it was...
The Dymaxion House
The Dymaxion House was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher R. Buckminister Fuller. In 1920, Fuller wished to build a sustainable...
The Tales of Giants
Giants have been an iconic figure since storytelling began. We all had a favourite giant as children with popular culture littered with giant figures....
Graf Zeppelin: The Age of Global Airship Travel
The most successful zeppelin ever built, LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin flew more than a million miles on 590 flights, carrying over 34,000 passengers without a...
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Gladiators are Fiction: Colosseums are Enormous Power Plants (Part 1)
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The Ingenious Creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is one of the most...
Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole
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