Concorde had become financially unworkable after a high-profile crash in 2000, combined with excessive ticket prices, high fuel consumption, and increasingly high maintenance costs. If Boom’s supersonic aircraft (pictured above) is to succeed, it will depend on overcoming these issues that derailed Concorde. Why was the Concorde made? The ConcordeRead More →
Beyond its achievements in subject matter, the nineteenth century reintroduced rigorous proof. No matter what individual mathematicians may have thought about the soundness of their results, the fact is that from about 200 B.C. to about 1870 almost all of mathematics rested on an empirical and pragmatic basis. Who inventedRead More →
The Thumbscrew was a tool that was commonly used for purposes of torture in medieval times. It was a simple torture device used to crush the fingers of the person to be tortured. The thumbscrew was a particularly effective torture tool for gaining confessions. When was the thumb screw used?Read More →
Who invented the Cobb salad? According to Larry’s dinner companion in this episode, Cliff Cobb, it was invented by his grandfather at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. What dies Cobb salad mean? Wiktionary. Cobb saladnoun. A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken,Read More →
Gattegno formed the Cuisenaire Company in Reading, England, in 1954, and by the end of the 1950s, Cuisenaire rods had been adopted by teachers in 10,000 schools in more than a hundred countries. The rods received wide use in the 1960s and 1970s. What are the values of Cuisenaire Rods?Read More →
Although they looked much more like what we would call a sideboard, the earliest use of the word dresser dates to 16th-century England. Who invented drawer slides? Over fifty years ago the company founder, Mel Houck, invented and started manufacturing and selling the GO-EZ drawer guide system in Tulare, California.Read More →