Impossible Inventions

Greek fire, ice aircraft carriers, spaceships riding atomic bombs to Saturn.

13 stories

• The Two Vacuum Cleaners That Learned to Breathe
• The Roman Cup That Was Accidentally Nanotechnology
• The Seesaw That Was Built to Raise the Dead
• The Spaceship That Was Supposed to Ride Atomic Bombs to Saturn
• The Mechanical Duck That Fooled Paris With Fake Poop
• The Motor That Ran for Twenty-Six Years on a Secret Room Full of Compressed Air
• The Bomb Three Pigeons Were Trained to Steer
• The Flying Saucer the Air Force Built That Maxed Out at 35 MPH
• Greek Fire: The Byzantine Weapon That Burned on Water — and Whose Recipe Died With the Empire
• Starlite: The Fireproof Plastic a Hairdresser Invented and Took to His Grave
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The Aircraft Carrier Britain Tried to Build Out of Ice
• The Airplane That Carried a Nuclear Reactor

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