Found - this astonishing and admiring piece about Tesla from The Courier-Journal  coming out of Louisville, Kentucky (Sunday, August 22, 189...

The second and last part of a chapter from this fascinating forgotten work  Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts  (Allan, London 1928) by ...

An apposite Jot in view of the recent death of Wurzel soundalike, Professor Colin Pillinger, the space scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars la...

Some amazing covers from Modern Wonder: the Pictorial Review. (Odhams, London 1937 - 1940) An astonishing magazine of m...

From R. Houwink's The Odd Book of Data (Elsevier, Amsterdam 1965) obtained from the amazing library of Jeremy Beadle MBE (1948 -2008)...

John D. Clark. IGNITION! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants. Rutgers University, USA 1972. This is rocket science. Cult ...

William James Sidis, born in Boston in 1898 to Russian émigré Boris, a psychologist and his wife Sarah, a physician, showed astonishing inte...