PolicyJanuary 20, 2017
Millions of Prisoners of War, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 20, 1917
Stories by Dan Schlenoff
Dan Schlenoff was a contributing editor at Scientific American and edited the 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago column for one seventh of the magazine's history.
EngineeringJanuary 13, 2017
Manufacturing Machine Guns by the Thousand, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 13, 1917
EngineeringJanuary 6, 2017
The Invention of the Armored Battlefield, 1917
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: January 6, 1917
EngineeringDecember 30, 2016
Technical Fix Makes a Fighter Airplane, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 30, 1916
EngineeringDecember 23, 2016
War of the (Manufacturing) Machines, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 23, 1916
EngineeringDecember 16, 2016
Battle-Cruiser: A Flawed Ship Design from 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 16, 1916
EngineeringDecember 9, 2016
Artillery on the Somme, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 9, 1916
EngineeringDecember 2, 2016
Tools of the Battlefield, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 2, 1916
EngineeringDecember 1, 2016
Urban Engineering in 1916: Science and Technology for the City
EngineeringNovember 25, 2016
Ill-Fated Battleship, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: November 25, 1916
PolicyNovember 18, 2016
America, Still at Peace, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: November 18, 1916
EngineeringNovember 11, 2016
The Detritus of War, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: November 11, 1916
EngineeringNovember 4, 2016
Wretched Anti-Submarine Defense, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: November 4, 1916
ChemistryNovember 1, 2016
Salt: Historical Notes from Scientific American
EngineeringOctober 28, 2016
Invention Revealed: The Tank, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 28, 1916
EngineeringOctober 21, 2016
Tackling the Submarine, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 21, 1916
PolicyOctober 14, 2016
World War, 1916: Paying the Bills
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 14, 1916
EngineeringOctober 7, 2016
New Technology for 1916: Tanks
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: October 7, 1916
EngineeringOctober 1, 2016
The Year 1916 in the Great War
AerospaceSeptember 30, 2016
A War of Information, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 30, 1916
EngineeringSeptember 23, 2016
Measuring the Wind for Artillery, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 23, 1916
EngineeringSeptember 16, 2016
Building the Big Guns, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 16, 1916
ElectronicsSeptember 9, 2016
The Telephone at War, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 9, 1916
AerospaceSeptember 2, 2016
Aerial Combat, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 2, 1916