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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Portable Workbench Is Solid And Space Saving
Last week we covered the topic of electronic work benches. But we know that there’s more to life than soldering irons and tiny components. Sometimes to pull off a hack, you need to get your hands dirty, and get some … Continue reading
Popular historian David McCullough can’t quite find the real men behind the …
Simon Schuster The Wright Brothers By David McCullough Simon Schuster, 336 pp., $30 David McCullough’s popular biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Adams succeeded with readers because they weren’t about politics or history from a particular point of … Continue reading
New Model Could Drastically Reduce an Airplane’s Tarmac Time
Airplanes spend an awful lot of time waiting on tarmacs. In some cases, the time a plane spends waiting on the tarmac rivals the flight itself. A new mathematical tool developed by engineers could change that. Georgios Vatistas, a mechanical … Continue reading
World War II-Era Planes to Perform Historic Flyover of National Mall
World War II-era planes will perform a flyover of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied victory in Europe, or V-E Day. The event, dubbed the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover, will … Continue reading
Turbine Cars: Past, Present, and Future
There have always been options and alternatives to the great V8. Turbine engines enjoyed quite a bit of fame in the 1960s. Concept cars whirred and whooshed around auto shows, and even the Indy 500 felt the hot breath of … Continue reading
American seeks savings from Dreamliner
American Airlines employees Steve Kmetz, from left, Frank Hettlinger and Norm Rainwater look at in-flight entertainment in the business class section during a media tour of a Boeing 787. (Michael Ainsworth/TNS) American Airlines employees Steve Kmetz, from left, Frank Hettlinger … Continue reading
Questlove Talks to the Chefs Behind the Revolutionary Fast-food Concept Loco’l
What do you call fast food when it’s still fast and it’s still food, but when it does away with all the bad associations — nutritional, corporate, aesthetic — that have plagued it for decades? You call it Loco’l. Born … Continue reading