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Athelstan: King of Malmesbury and the Forgotten Library
BEFORE THE CANON IV In the centre of Malmesbury, in...
Lake Nemi: The Floating Palaces of Diana’s Mirror
On 15 July 1535, a Bolognese soldier and engineer...
The Ancient Finds of America: Too Deep to Be a Joke
Three men, working three different rigs across three different...
Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens
Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...
Gladiators are Fiction: Colosseums are Enormous Power Plants (Part 1)
Is it possible that, at some point in the past, large audiences were entertained by watching bloody armed fights to the death? Is it...
Tesla’s Arc Revolution and the Mud Machine?
Nikola Tesla, among the most inventive minds of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, spent years developing technologies for high-voltage electric arcs and...
Bells: Vibration & Electromagnetic Energy Transmission
The concept of using the vibration of bells, when connected to a metal circuit, to transmit electromagnetic energy from the atmosphere is an intriguing...
World’s Fair at St. Louis – Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
The first thing the newcomer hears from the visitor who has spent several days at the World’s Fair is: “It is simply immense. The grounds cover 1,240 acres.” And the newcomer thinks: “Mercy, how shall I ever get around to see it all?” For the robust, healthy American, whether man or woman, the best means of transportation is that which nature has provided.
“AETHER” Part II: Electricity is a Steady Flow of Ions
Electricity is a steady flow of ions — a flow of electrically charged particles through a substance. Ions are collected from the ionosphere to create...
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