V-2 rocket

...of 1940s terraced houses before blowing them up with bombs identical to those used by the German airforce during the war, including a V2 rocket. It said the series Blitz Street would examine the "profound psychological phenomenon" of the...

In this article: Channel 4, Waste, Aviation fuel, V2 rocket, ProSieben, and Aeroflot

...second, followed by the DNA double helix. After that, in order, came the Apollo 10 space capsule, the V2 rocket engine, Stephenson's Rocket steam locomotive, the Pilot ACE early computer, the steam engine, the Model T Ford motor car, and...

In this article: Apollo 10, Model T Ford, Science Museum, British Museum, Apollo spacecraft, V2 rocket, Antibiotic, and Ben Bradshaw

...its website. Penicillin was voted second; followed by the DNA double helix; the Apollo 10 capsule; the V-2 rocket engine; the steam engine Stephenson's Rocket; the Pilot ACE, one of the first computers; the Ford Model T car; and the electric...

In this article: Apollo 10, Ford Model T, Science Museum, and London

...device, invented in 1895, inexplicably beat off competition from Stephenson's Rocket, the electric telegraph, the steam engine and the Nazi's V2 rocket engine. 50,000 votes were cast online and at the museum in South Kensington.

In this article: Apollo 10, V2 rocket, Model T Ford, Alan Turing, and Science Museum

...Crick and James Dewey Watson in 1953 to determine the molecular structure of DNA. The Apollo 10 capsule, the V2 rocket, Stephenson s Rocket, the Pilot ACE - one of the first computers, the steam engine, the Model T Ford motor car, and the...

In this article: Apollo 10, Penicillin, Model T Ford, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, V2 rocket, Second World War, Antibiotic, Ernst Boris Chain, Howard Walter Florey, and James Dewey Watson

...her, as a young woman of 23, to infiltrate a group of German officers and charm them into revealing the secret of the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs being built at Peenemunde. I recounted Jeannie's exploits in a Dec. 28, 1998, piece in The Post.

In this article: CIA, Michael Hayden, London, World War II, and International Institute for Strategic Studies

...that September, which meant that the war would continue into 1945. The V1 was followed on 8 September by the V2 rocket, against which there was no defence. And it was as late as 27 March 1945, barely six weeks before VE (Victory in...

In this article: Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Britain, World War II, Labour Party, Wendell Willkie, British soldier, and Unemployment

...the scope of an 18-pound British artillery gun while, a few feet away, kids sporting maroon jackets gathered around a towering V2 rocket, one of the more than 1,000 V2s that the Nazis fired on Britain. "They were silent," a teacher...

In this article: London, Adolf Hitler, Britain, Winston Churchill, Londoner, V2 rocket, World War II, and Luftwaffe

...into the mystery of her identity An unsung heroine of the home front: ambulance driver Jean Grover, right, and a nurse help after a V2 rocket attack in 1945. Photograph: Picture Post/Getty Images Let no one say that all the Second World...

In this article: London, V2 rocket, Second World War, and Bank of England

...U.S. Failure on Climate Change The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is no more fit to rescue our climate than a V-2 rocket was to land a man on the moon. Nathan Gardels: Is John Bolton Right About North Korea? Donnie...

In this article: Sherrod Brown, Climate change, Apollo Alliance, U.S., Global warming, and Nancy Pelosi