“Failure is not an option.” – Gene Kranz (NASA Flight Director, during Apollo 13) Just 66 years after the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903, […]
Last time, in Part One (Mechanical Clocks, Electricity, and Radio), we talked about the Abacus, the Chinese ‘Cosmic Engine’, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, robots in early […]
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) Ever since the Wright Brothers’ first […]