the Vickers machine gun entered service with the British Army in 1912. This weapon, originally designed in 1884 by the American engineer Maxim, was later modernized and became the standard weapon in Great Britain. The Vickers machine gun equipped both the Army and the British Air Force. Used during
On the night of September 7, 1914, the northeast of France became the improvised scene of an unusual spectacle:that of hundreds of taxis that flowed incessantly and hurriedly from Les Invalides in Paris towards the Marne Valley, full of soldiers and each vehicle Following the taillights of the one i
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes represented in 1813 the death of the admiral and scholar Pliny the Elder, who sought to help the victims of the eruption. Augustins Museum, Toulouse • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Slight earthquakes have been sweeping the Gulf of Naples for several days. Simple unpredictable jo
The North American X-15 is an American experimental rocket plane, built as part of a research program on very high speed and very high altitude flight. From 1960 to 1968, the 3 examples built performed approximately 200 test flights on behalf of NASA, smashing all speed and altitude records held by