Richard Doud – Page 49

September 27, 2025 4:17 am EDT

Elevator shaft, circa 1936.

TNB Night Owl – The Ups and Downs of Elevator Sounds

September 30, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

This article could have been the complete history of “Muzak”, in a repeating loop, but it’s not …

Bristol Brabazon on maiden flight, 1949.

TNB Night Owl – Bristol Brabazon

September 28, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

Simultaneously ten years ahead of and behind its time …

Port Elizabeth - Uitenhage railway built by Cape Colony/Molteno Government in 1870s. Photograph from South African Railways Archives, showing CGR 1st Class 4-4-0TT locomotives that entered service in 1881. Date circa 1882. Public domain.

TNB Night Owl – The Switchman of Uitenhage

September 25, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

In nine years he never made a mistake …

The first album by Booker T. & The M.G.s, entitled "Green Onions".

TNB Night Owl – “Green Onions”

September 23, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

In the late 1950s, several small record labels started a movement in popular music that …

Viking longship.

TNB Night Owl – Viking DNA

September 21, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

They believed in genetic diversity …

Leaf surface of Giant Stinging Tree (Dendrocnide excelsa) showing the stinging hairs.

TNB Night Owl – Venomous Australian Stinging Tree

September 18, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

Think nettles on steroids …

U.S. Army Air Force North American P-51 Mustang fighters from the 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, from RAF Bottisham, Cambridgeshire (UK), in flight on 26 July 1944.

TNB Night Owl – The Triple-Axis Ace Who Shot Down A Hot Romance

September 16, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

Strange things happen in wartime …

Photograph of the Milky Way in the night sky over Black Rock Desert, Nevada taken on 7/22/2007.

TNB Night Owl – Telstar

September 14, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

The first of many, bringing the world closer together …

A close-up of water and soil being splashed by the impact of a single raindrop. USDA, public domain.

TNB Night Owl – The Air After Rain

September 11, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

There are three separate contributors to sweet-smelling air …

Rendition of Soviet flying submarine concept from the 1930s.

TNB Night Owl – Flying Submarines

September 9, 2020 12:01 am EDT Richard Doud Comments Off

Not one of history’s more useful ideas …

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