#myths

Stories tagged “myths” in the Weird Science History archive — 6 stories connected by this topic.

• George Washington's Wooden Teeth — Which Were Never Made of Wood
• The Astronaut Ice Cream That Astronauts (Probably) Never Ate
• The Railway That Ran on Suction — and the Rats Blamed for Eating It
• The Duck Borrowed From a Farm to Prove That Quacks Do Echo
• The Million-Dollar Space Pen Myth — and the $128.89 Pencils NASA Actually Bought
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Myth That Refused to Burn Out

Related topics: #NASA #chemistry #Cold War #invention #Isambard Kingdom Brunel #space food #Victorian engineering