Chris Zell wrote:
When people took Daugerrotypes, they were accused of faking the pictures.
Daguerreotypes?!? Come now. They had fast exposure plates and movie cameras by 1903. Daguerreotypes were obsolete by the 1860s.
Oh, and there was a war in Europe and for some reason the Huns won.
That outcome would be likely indeed. The allies held a small but vital advantage in airpower, which proved essential to winning the war.
As I pointed out in my Infinite Energy article, one person in particular deserves credit for allied air superiority: T. O. M. Sopwith. His airplanes helped win WWI, WWII (the Hurricane) and Falklands war (the jump-jet). Sometimes, history is made by individual people, not market forces or population pressure or other abstract, mass-population effects.
- Jed
