Airplanes, engine-driven vehicles that fly through the air, have evolved in less than a century into one of the most important inventions in history. Every day, airplanes commute people and goods great distances. Over the last 100 years, they have been developed and perfected from simple gliders to ...

On The Beach This powerful fiction doomsday novel is set in Australia in the aftermath of the nuclear disasters in the northern hemisphere. Someone, somewhere, started World War III. The last survivors of humanity helplessly await the atomic rain and dust headed their way. This is the poison th...

Gas Turbine Engines Gas turbine engines date back to the early 1940's. Sir Frank Wittle, a British aeronautical engineer and aviator, invented the turbojet engine (The World Almanac Educational Group, 2002, p. 1). Gas turbine engines took off, and have been soaring ever since. They offer an unma...

Aviation History As long ago as 1884 a machine weighing 8,000 pounds demonstrated its power both to lift itself from the ground and to maintain a speed of from 30 to 40 miles per hour, but failed of success owing to the inability to balance and steer ...

Canada is not exactly known for having produced several ground-breaking inventions or discoveries in her time. However, the period of rapid technological advancement that she incurred during the third period of the history of engineering in Canada brought with it several important engineering inv...

The idea of flight has fascinated people for centuries, even to this day, which is why I decided to research on airplanes. When I researched the history on planes, I was surprised at the effort and the time people long ago spent trying to make a machine that flies. I also wondered, like many, how an...

October Sky The movie "October Sky" is set in the 1950's in the dieing cola mining town of Coalwood, during the beginning of the space race. The town is experiencing big economic changes during a time of nation wide turmoil. The space race inspires a boy named Homer Hickam to purs...

World War One began in August of 1914, involving the military powers of Europe, Britain, other nations throughout the world, and later the United States. The war was fought mainly on the ground, until the invention of the aircraft as a military weapon This new type of warfare soon became a strong po...

Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff Tobias Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father is Arthur Saunders and he is an aeronautical engineer. His mother is Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff. He married a clinical social worker named Catherine Dolores Spohn in 1975. The couple had tw...

As the 1980's approached, the launch of a space shuttle was almost as routine as a trip on an airliner. Space travel had been successful on 24 missions. Most people thought the danger of space travel was nearly eliminated. On January 28, 1986, they were proven wrong. The orbital Challenger wa...

Man's dream of flying has been apparent almost as long as mankind himself. However, the concept of an aircraft has only been around for approximately two hundred years. Before this time, man tried to fulfill this dream by mimicking the birds. They first built machines called ornithopters to u...

Wright Brothers Part 1 The Wright Brothers invention of the airplane greatly assisted in the growth of our country due to the fact that it opened many doors for the improvement of transportation. Wilbur and Orville Wright, also know as the Wright Brothers, were born into a family of seven...

A Strong Background in Computer Technology Will Benefit Future Engineers Computer technology has advanced dramatically over the past ten years. Technology has advanced from computers the size of a room that can only perform one particular task, to personal computers (PC's) that wil...

Technology has advanced from computers the size of a room that can only perform one particular task, to personal computers (PC's) that will fit on a desk and perform multiple tasks. Understanding computers and their programs and being able to apply that knowledge is very important in today&apos...

William E. Boeing: Aviation Pioneer William Edward Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 1, 1881. He was the son of a wealthy timber merchant. Boeing dropped out of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1903 before finishing his engineering degree and moved to Gray's Harbor, Washin...

Most people are familiar with the Standard Configuration, the most common airplane design. However, recent revelations in both military and general aviation have shown at least a slight movement toward different arrangements of an airplane's lift and control surfaces. These variations in a...

The History Of Planes Have you ever wondered who was the first person to make a flying machine? It was not the Wright brother. If you want to know just keep reading more about the history of the planes and how it evolved. The Reason Planes Fly Whenever I see a plane the first questi...

Major Creditors to the History of Rocketry Tsiolkovsky – Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky was born in September, 1857 in the town of Izhevskoye, Spassk District, Ryazan Gubernia. On the merits of some of his early research and related writings, Tsiolkovsky was elected to the ...

The Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout the 20th century, it has been the media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest ...

The Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout the 20th century, it has been the media's job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of ...