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That's not how I remember it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_an_Engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography
by abecedarius 5y ago
That's not how I remember it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_an_Engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_a... though yes we have much better weather forecasting now.
- romwell 5y agoYou mean, the book that wasn't about a Zeppelin? As in, an aircraft made by the Zeppelin corporation. The British never learned how to make dirigibles[1], the Americans never learned how to operate them; all non-German airship projects were failures. That's why Zeppelin became synonymous with "rigid dirigible airship". Because all other projects failed. [1] R100 was a good design... but it was scrapped because of politics, and never entered service.