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Silicon Valley is synonymous today with high-tech startups and technology, a center for computer research and big-name tech companies. But in the 1930s that reputation was just beginning to form when the city of Sunnyvale sold some land to the US government to establish an airbase, today known as Moffett Field. The history of that airfield and the work done there has done more than a little to earn Silicon Valley its name.
From Blimps to Microchips: Moffett Field
To the western mind the crossbow is probably most associated with the middle ages, but its invention predates that era by about 1000 years.
In 1630, a little remembered group of 8 Englishmen became separated from their ship, and were left virtually without equipment and supplies, in one of the world’s harshest environments, to almost certain death.
