JOHN J. GEOGHEGAN is a journalist, author, and editor who specializes in reporting on White Elephant Technology. His articles have appeared in the
New York Times Science section,
WIRED,
Popular Science, and the
Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine, and he has featured in a number of interviews and documentaries. He has previously written
When Giants Ruled the Sky for The History Press, and
Operation Storm: Japan’s Top Secret Submarines and Their Plan to Change the Course of WWII (Crown, 2013), both on WETech inventions. He lives in California.
Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance...
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