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Posted by: Josh Levy
Sometime in the mid-1930s, an aeronautical engineer sent out a particularly un-Christmassy looking Christmas card, one that featured a sleek aircraft soaring above a speeding train and automobile, with an art deco cityscape in the background.
Posted by: Josh Levy
On September 25, 1910, in Aotearoa New Zealand, a stunning Maori kite caught Alexander Graham Bell's eye. His journals show Bell's brief encounter with an indigenous scientific tradition and reveal his own obsession with transporting human beings through the air in enormous tetrahedral kites.
Posted in: Aviation, International History, Of Note, Science and Technology