late 19th century

I'm putting this here as I think this is the most appropriate place for this, if anyone thinks otherwise please move this to the correct place. Emerging Civil War: The Helicopter Designed by A Union Chief Engineer As with many pre-internal combustion designs the issue was the weight of the...

This is an appeal to anybody with knowledge of French ironclad design concerning a mystery model which I describe below... There is a French online antiques seller which, for some considerable time, has advertised a mysterious and intriguing model of an unknown French barbette ironclad. The...

Mentioned briefly by Drach here at 2.06 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbVmZ77Q5A Anyone have any information on this ship and size of guns?

One of the first great communication 'collapses' in history was the advent of the electric telegraph which drastically reduced communications times across large distances. Permitting this 'time compressing' technology to cross the oceans seemed an insurmountable problem, especially in an era...

Hello everyone. I’m curious about the USS Monitor and its historical significance during the Civil War. What were the primary innovations that made this ironclad ship stand out from traditional wooden ships of the time? I know it played a crucial role in the Battle of Hampton Roads against...

Otherwise known as Distance Plunging. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240720-the-extinct-olympic-sport-that-was-the-dullest-of-all-time

Hello all, I was doing some reach on the Russian cruiser Novik laid down in 1900 and I found some interesting information regarding some alternate proposals. Apparently the German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke AG proposed a 30 knot capable cruiser design in 1898! As far as I am aware, Novik was a...

Introduction: John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Commander, Captain, Admiral, Second then First Sea Lord, one if not the most influential and prominent naval commander of the Royal Navy. His ideas, views and dedicated work allowed the modernization of the Royal Navy to remain in first...

During the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) the Argentine navy consisted of a few packet steamers armed with a couple of small-bore muzzle-loaders. The leading naval and military power in the region was Brazil. After the war, Argentina and Brazil sought to establish hegemony over defeated...

Hello As part of my shipbucket hobby, I've been collecting as much references as possible of french never-build and preliminary ship designs. I must say that its not been an easy task, sometimes I think that french stuff is more mystical and hard to find than Russian/soviet stuff of which i've...

An article on the RINA website regarding an recent addition to the fleet of the present day Guardia di Finanza, got me to wondering, just what designs had been proposed over the years for the naval element of its previous incarnation as the Regia Guardia di Finanza (1881-1946)?

Hi, here is some old flying barrel airplanes. http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html

Hi folks, As aye, hope this isn’t old news. Saw this one as a model-drawing in a book I owned thirty-odd years ago and never found out the name until yesterday but here is an odd thing from 1879-1885 - an aircraft that isn't quite an ornithopter but not a fixed wing design or rotorcraft either...

Try as I might, I can find very few inventors, enthusiasts, engineers who were experimenting with light-than-air flight in America. Solomon Andrews seems to be the only name I can find. Did American have enough interest to develop airships in this nation, or were we more focused of the...

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Around the previous turn of the century, there was an Engineering School based in the Crystal Palace, Paxton's famous glass exhibition building which had by then been re-erected at Sydenham in London. Several pioneer aviators passed through the area at one time or another, but I know of no...

Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft designer born in 1871. His company was called Sociéte Pierre Levasseur Aéronautique and thay produced aircraft mainly for the French Navy in the inter-war period. As a subsidiary, Levasseur also ran a successful flying school. The chief pilot of his...

Hi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABhachi_Ninomiya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WsPnusghwc

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply...