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What do Nikola Tesla, Captain Nemo, Dr. Julius No, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Madame Marie Curie have in common?
Why, they are all on Mad Scientists" href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4278842.html">this list, wherein Daniel H. Wilson and Anna C. Long travel back in time (and into fiction) to psychoanalyze and rate their All-time Top 5 Mad Scientists, at Popular Mechanics Magazine. (found via Brassgoggles.co.uk)

Also at popular Mechanics:
Are Backyard Hot-Air Blimps the Future of Low-and-Slow Aviation?
"Two rival New England inventors have been launching a new breed of airship over New England's Connecticut River Valley. But will recreational hot-air blimps go mainstream, or are they just a pleasant diversion for a summer morning?" ... [more here]
4 New 'Blimp' Designs Bring Return of the Airship
"We already took you inside our floating future with hybrid airships. Can new tech put them on the fast track?"... [more at Popular Mechanics]
Just Don't Call it a Blimp
Photograph by Phillip Toledano
"It's a hybrid airship--part plane, part dirigible. Two Ohio inventors think production versions up to 990 feet long will launch a new era of aviation--one where low and slow is the way to go..." [more at Popular Mechanics]
Airship images are copyright © Popular Mechanics and/or by the phototographers listed. Madame Curie and Nikola Tesla images are public domain, and found at wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia.org. |