Tag: the future

  • The dome and the arch have been valued for millennia due to their durability and strength; Roman aqueducts and bridges using the arch survive to this day, places of worship belonging to several faiths often top their glorious structures with massive domes, and even the little igloo is known to maximize living space while minimizing…

  • The Fruits of Science Fiction

    In 1862, when most of the world’s navies were still wooden, the Union was blockading the two largest cities of the Confederate States in northern Virginia. The metal plated CSS Virginia engaged the three wooden ships in the blockade, destroying two and crippling the third before the sun set. On the following day, on the way…