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Ti Hua Ji: World’s earliest computer is a silk loom built in China 2000 years ago

As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...
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The tiny Cold War helicopter the Marines almost took into combat

The 1950s were a time of rapid innovation in aviation. The world emerged from World War II with an intense curiosity about ...

When the military tried to give soldiers personal flying platforms

In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.
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X-62A VISTA: World’s only self-flying F-16 advances path to autonomous air combat

Lockheed Martin is using a modified F-16 fighter jet to teach artificial intelligence how to fly, maneuver, and eventually ...
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Aviation history was made in Kitty Hawk ... and in the Tampa Bay area

Jan. 1 marks the 112th anniversary of the first commercial airline flight. It happened on a short jaunt from St. Petersburg ...