The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading
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YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30After more than four decades of forced silence, some of the last surviving atomic soldiers share their unfathomable experiences of the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s
posted by bobknight33 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 22:53YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 426 views • 10:05Luscombe was an aircraft manufacturer that ceased operation around 1950, this one is a 1946 Luscombe 8A/ O-200. This video explains the annual inspection legally required to keep it airworthy and certified. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 714 views • 7:23In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months ago • 22 views • 2:59Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,871 views • 3:31A new polio epidemic could happen in the USA as more parents opt out of immunization.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 7:09Plywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,947 views • 6:44YouTube: In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 669 views • 5:25YouTube description: 23rd video of the Behind the Business Series. BIC is a corporation based in France best known for making ballpoint pens. It was founded in 1945 by Baron Marcel Bich and has become... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months ago • 1,203 views • 10:33YouTube description: The Park-Car was invented by Brooks Walker in the 1930s and patented in the 1950s. The car included a fifth wheel that allowed it to rotate in and out of parking spaces, as well... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 500 views • 1:31a 1950's educational film titled "how honest are you?". i don't know why but these old films fascinate me,because the indoctrination was so blatant back then.they didn't even try to hide it.
posted by enoch 7 years 2 months ago • 14 views • 14:03YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23YT "Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in detail the use of cesium vapor to create a feedback or control loop to control... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 8 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 544 views • 4:33"... ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings." Random! From the apex of the cartoon age, this is a classic 1950's "educational" propaganda short. The climax unabashedly extols the benefits... continue reading
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