Dole We live in a three-dimensional (physicists may say four, fantasists say more) world. To visually represent that, one needs to meld length, width, and depth. Absent any one and the result is a bizarre view of the world. Hence, we can start with something as seemingly complex as this flat, 2-dimensional—up and down, left and …
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The Confederate ironclad Tennessee was effectively armed with a concentrated and powerful armament of two 7-inch Brooke double-banded rifles fore and aft on pivot mounts and four 6.4-inch Brooke double-banded rifles, two per broadside. The 7-inch rifles, weighing 15,300 pounds each, were manufactured in Selma, Alabama. This, the bow gun, tube no. S-10, is …
Making Sausage: You Really Don’t Want to Know This is an incomplete project. Although portions of it were published in the December 2009 issue of Naval History magazine, they were carefully cropped to eliminate errors that exist because of lack of documentation and skill on my part. My goal is to do the definitive model …
Some photographs from one of my favorite museums The Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, New York, is arguably the centerpiece of a state-wide program centered around the historic Erie Canal. The museum is housed in the Weighlock Building built in 1850 to weigh canal boats to determine their tolls. It is listed on the National …
Thoughts on viewing a photographic exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art First off, so you know where I am coming from, I have been a professional photojournalist for more than 40 years. That means I’ve gotten my hands wet with chemicals, mixed my own chemistry, got really sick from licking a ferrocyanide brush, and …
When is the Battle of Midway NOT the Battle of Midway? Research is everything. Your output, no matter what the format—words, painting, oratory, conversation, whatever—is wholly dependent upon those nuggets of information it stands on. Assume you know nothing about the battle, which was remembered just last week on the 75th anniversary. You go to …
H. L. Hunley: Recovery Operations Edited by Robert S. Neyland and Heather G. Brown Washington Navy Yard, DC: U.S. Navy, Naval History and Heritage Command, 2016. 348 pages. Free PDF. This page was intended to be fun, full of joy, because I was just going to point you to a FREE 350-page book, that, …
Aviation Records in the Jet Age: The Planes and Technologies Behind the Breakthroughs by William A. Flanagan Specialty Press, 2017. 192 pages. $39.95 My sense—and that is all it is, a sense—is that the author’s title was much closer to simply Aviation Records rather than as now titled, and that marketing got a hold of …
World’s Fastest Single-Engine Jet Aircraft: The Story of Convair’s F-106 Delta Dart Interceptor By Doug Barbier Specialty Press, 2017. 228 pages. $44.95. I like this book not least because I like the aircraft, but mostly because of the Delta Dart’s relative invisibility among comprehensive aircraft histories and this fills that gap. Certainly there are the …
The Gurney Eagle Formula One Car by Dave Friedman GMP, 2004. 90 pages If you have any interest in the All American Racers Eagle or Dan Gurney, buy this book. If you follow F1, buy this book. If you follow auto racing, buy this book. If you like cars, buy this book. This is by …
