"How Allied Pilots Recognize Japanese Warships from the Air", a graphic that appeared in The Illustrated London News on 16 May 1942, displayed in silhouette the different sorts of Japanese warships ...

“Diligent reader, in this new work you have the motions of the fixed stars and planets, reconstituted from ancient as well as recent observations, and embellished by new and marvelous hypotheses. But ...

Here's another in a long series of Quick Posts on the artistic display of data: this one shows comparative naval strengths just after the turn of the century around the time of the First Moroccan ...

There were many integral components to firing a cannon on a ship, not the least of which were the Powder Boys, the small, young, semi-strong kids who would run the gunpowder from a below-decks armory ...

The path of existence of the non-planet planet Pluto along with the rest of its Solar System friends can be nicely plotted out for visual ease on a series of mostly-concentric orbital lines. Pluto's ...

The "Proportior" (sounding somewhat like an exclamation, like Excelsior!, and looking for all the world like it should be spelled some other more appropriate way) a fabulous desktop/tabletop ...

All I have in this question is the question, and one that I believe I have not seem before. There are certainly much earlier ideas published on writing machines--Lemuel Gulliver encounters such a ...

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee Lord, my soul to keep;If I should die before I wake, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take.--New England Primer, 1784 edition There's nothing scary in that is ...

Generally the dozens of maps/charts showing the comparative heights of mountains and lengths of rivers maps that have come through the store part of this blog have been somewhat large--or at least ...

Entertaining works for a happier labor force has certainly been a "thing" for quite some time--I don't know the history very much 1 but I know it extends back into the 19th c to some probably very ...

The mathematician Hermann Schubert wrote in his 1889 text on the uselessness of calculating pi past 500 digits--I haven't located a copy of the original 1889 publication though the story is often ...

“Atomic Bomb” appeared in print for the first time thirty years before there was one. It appeared in H.G. Wells' The World Set Free, written in 1913 and published in 1914, evidently before the ...