Self-Propelled | Vintage News
The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing the pipe organ in the 3rd century B.C. and improving the clepsydra, the most accurate clock for more than 1,800 years
Depth sounding techniques that preceded the modern day SONAR technology
The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead: the event that gave rise to the “women and children first” protocol
Bessie Coleman: The first woman of African-American and Native American descent to become a pilot
Operation Pluto: The plan to bring oil to France for the 1944 invasion of Normandy
Maillardet’s automaton- a mechanical invention that wrote, drew sketches and stored data
The USS Los Angeles: the longest serving airship in USA’s Navy
Fox sisters launch Spiritualism by fooling around
The Greek navy maintains a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias
The beginnings of leisure cruising and the first cruise ships in the world
