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Part of the group that met to discuss the storming of the American embassy in Iran advocated storming the Soviet embassy. The next attempt to...
Republicans tried to privatize federal utilities in the United States under President Roosevelt and President Truman. Ronald Reagan's political...
Modern hydraulic fracturing technology was developed starting in the 1980s by George P. Mitchell for use in shale formations. Starting around the...
Enron and several other individuals and firms were involved in an extensive conspiracy to manipulate electricity prices on the West Coast of the...
Some sources state that the United States experienced the first post-World War II petroleum shortages starting in summer 1972, continuing into...
Transporting petroleum by trains costs $10 to $15 per barrel, compared to around $5 for pipelines, but both systems have around the same capital...
NASA's official history states that some proposed using an existing government agency as the basis for the space program. In addition to the...
It could be easier to focus on just a few areas in detail and cover the rest in more general terms.
I tied the Electoral College in 2016 with moderate Trump-Christie and was elected President by the House (link). I lost the popular vote by 2.5%...
Nice contribution, looking forward to the rest of the series. Also, unfortunately it is difficult to see the text when using the dark color...
In 1959 Kraft Foods had a space themed contest with the grand prize being an Aerojet Training Space Ship. Photos and more information at this...
This 1926 poster was made by Montague Birrell Black and commissioned by Transport for London as a visualization of what the future of travel might...
A thread for things with a dieselpunk aesthetic.
The Kluge California Kilowatt, a radio from 1946. Advertisement and photo from this blog. [IMG]
A thread for things with a jetpunk or rocketpunk aesthetic.
This is quite the timeline. What year do you plan to take it up to?
The Energy-Environment Simulator was developed by United States Atomic Energy Commission scientists at the height of the 1973 Energy Crisis. The...
Culpeper Switch was built in 1968 as a continuity of operations site for the United States Federal Reserve. In addition to acting as the center of...
The Chase-Kirchner Aerodromic Railroad was an 1894 high speed rail concept discussed in the May 5, 1894 issue of Scientific American. The article...
This is an interesting setting. How much more do you have written so far?