Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frivolous Jumps. In the neatly appropriate year of 1900, a discovery was made that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had...
De Havilland's figures knocked the props from under London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve...