1960: “A half microsecond glimpse of a .30-caliber bullet cutting a card was obtained by Professor Harold E. Edgerton, SM ’27, ScD ’31, and John Tredwell ’60, an M.I.T. graduate student, with a new electronic flash unit’s 50-millioncandle- power beam. This newly developed mic...
With the locked breech design, the barrel and slide recoil together until the bullet exits the barrel, pressure abates and the slide unlocks from the barrel. It then ejects the fired cartridge, and the slide returns forward, strips a round from the magazine, and feeds it into the chamber. ...
One year after Barbenheimer, voters looking to honor a comparably, ahem,popularphenomenon will have to settle for the first act of aWizard of Ozorigin story that took Broadway by storm a couple of decades ago.Wickedis a much better musical thanEmilia Pérez(though not necessarily the best mu...