Thus, there was a sense of disbelief throughout the country when the 1965 blackout darkened the Northeast, leaving New York City bathed only in moonlight. A blackout teaches a society about itself. That blackout showed, too, how much electric-powered diversions occupy time and interest; ...
The first five-pound batch available sold out in one afternoon. 1929: Yo-yo Daderot // flickr 1929: Yo-yo No one knows exactly when the yo-yo was invented, but its first appearance in the U.S. was in 1927, when Pedro Flores, an immigrant from the Philippines, started carving and ...
1948. Mantell’s pursuit ended in flames—the pilot pursued the object at too high an altitude, blacked out from lack of oxygen and spiraled out of control. The government later revealed that the UFO was, in fact, another classified weather balloon from ...
When the surge reaches generators, they begin to slow down. Generators closer to your light switch decelerate earlier and more. Inertia stored in the rotating shafts supplies the energy to your light. Grid frequency decreases on a downward slope, and the phase angles of the voltage at all node...
“When the lights went out, nobody knew what to expect. We were in a different place than the previous blackout in 1965, which was a quiet night, or later in 2003, when everyone feared terrorism. At first, I thought it was just Shea, but you could see out to Flushing and ever...
bushes",' laughs Kate. It was a surreal existence for a child. How many people can say that Jackie Kennedy helped them find their underpants during the 1965 blackout in New York City?Kate's summers were regularly spent on her father's film sets, from Rome to London to castles in Kent...