David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph reports: Information hard to find about world-record 320-foot slide rule built at Alvirne High School [This] truly gigantic creation – as long as a football field – was built in 1979, just as slide rules were being made obsolete by electronic calculators…. [It] was 320 feet long. Considering that […]
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The mystery of The Button Study
What is The Button Study? At the moment, all that’s announced publicly is its name, its leader (Wayne Gray), the phrase “more to come soon”, and this photograph:
Technical details: UOIT means…???
The Canadian academic institution known as UOIT is somewhat secretive about what those letters — U O I T — stand for. Visitors to the institution’s web site http://www.uoit.ca/ can spend a happy quarter of an hour or more exploring the site hardly ever (except by extraordinary luck!) running across a page that spells out […]
History of mystery pits
On April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon — tiny holes, pits, and dings have seemingly appeared in the windshields of cars at an unprecedented rate. Initially thought to be the work of vandals, the pitting rate grows so quickly that panicked residents soon suspect […]