This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Earliest Polar Explorers.IntroductionEven though the North Pole was
Wright Brothers Accomplishes First Manned Flight
Today's installment concludes The First Airplanes,the name of our combined selection from Charles F. Horne, Samuel Langley, and Alexander Graham
Needing an Engine
The commercial prosperity of the automobile industry led to the invention of ever lighter yet more powerful motors.Continuing The First
First Parachutes
Later experimenters were less successful, nor was it until after ballooning had become a popular sport that the most effective mechanism for arresting
Ballooning a Dead End
We turn back, therefore, to man's first fancy, the imitation of the birds, the heavier than air machine, sustained by the expenditure of energy from
The First Airplanes
This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Origins of Powered Flight.IntroductionBefore the Wright Brothers’
Germany Decimated
Today's installment concludes The Thirty Years War,the name of our combined selection from Samuel R. Gardiner and Charles F. Horne. The concluding
Sweden Attacks
All Europe had grown afraid of the tremendous and increasing power of the Hapsburg Emperor.Continuing The Thirty Years War,our selection from The
The Empire Strikes Back
Modern justice can find little to choose thereafter between the methods of the opposing armies.Continuing The Thirty Years War,our selection from