@inapineforest Reminded me of 'View of Dresden by Moonlight' (1839) by Johan Christian Dahl...
In 1800, US-engineer Robert Fulton built a practical experimental manually-propelled naval submarine, the Nautilus: Dutch engineer Cornelius Drebble built the first semi-submersible in 1620 for the English navy, but the Nautilus was the first fully-submersible submarine.
In 1947, Dutch astrophysicist Dr Bart Bok identified & defined globules of dark & dense molecular clouds that give rise to stellar formation via collapse in gravitational pressure; resulting in binary & multiple star systems, commonly. Our solar system is from different clouds.
In 1947, the Sikhote-Alin meteorite impacted in Siberia; the largest iron meteorite known. It is estimated that c. 500 meteorites reach the surface of the planet each year, but less than 10 are recovered. The Soviets recovered 23,000 kg of fragments.
In 1945, US-theoretical engineer Dr Vannevar Bush published 'As We May Think'; about a proto-hypertext collective memory machine. Computer scientists would be influenced by this & create software of storage, etc., based upon it (i.e. without consideration of impacts on Nature).
I think it was pilot Paul Tibbets who released the atomic bomb over Hiroshima in 1945: two others prepared it, the bombardier confirmed the target, auto-pilot was engaged & Tibbets triggered the release at 31,000 ft; detonation 1,900 ft. Perception of war crime relative to...
In 1943, Japanese palaeobotanist Dr Shigeru Miki collected living specimens of dawn redwood in China; a deciduous conifer believed to have been extinct from fossil evidence of 150 million years. WWII delayed confirmation that the species was not extinct: it is now endangered...
@PEIangelis1 The parallel of the Un-American censorship authoritarianism (e.g. Dalton Trumbo) and Soviet repression of literature in the 1940s-1950s.
In 1940, US-chemist Dr Louis Hammett coined the term 'physical organic chemistry'; the relationship between chemical structures & reactivity. The concept has enhanced research into kinetic energy of chemical interactions and organic molecular dynamics.
