In that era, fire fighters wore Civil War-style uniforms that featured heavy ... Meyer is Online Production Assistant, respectively, at NOVA. Photos/Illustrations: (1) Museum of the City of ...

They were certainly trying to win the war. And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other forms of deadly and sometimes exotic forms of ...

By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber capable of flying long distances with heavy ordnance loads. The Navy ordered ...

In an attempt to find an antidote to phosgene, a toxic gas used as a weapon during World War I, Nazi doctors exposed ... Peter Tyson is editor in chief of NOVA Online. Photos: (1) Hedy Epstein ...