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Major General Umberto Nobile is not a historical personage whose fame resonates down the ages. Though he did a cool thing designed the dirigible Norge and piloted it over the North Pole with explorer Roald Admundsen in 1926, making them the first people to reach that distant axis. Richard E. Byrd claimed to have beaten them by a few days, flying over the pole in an airplane. But that was later disputed. History has a way of changing its mind like that. Byrd was a hero, then; now he’s a fraud, maybe. Times change. The story of Nobile’s arrival ran in the Chicago Daily News next to an article on Zenith testing short wave radio that’s where I bumped into him. Much new technology debuted in Chicago: VHS tape was first demonstrated here, cell phones, too. On July 8, 1926, while Nobile was arriving at LaSalle Street station, Zenith engineers in a freight yard in Englewood were showing off a new marvel, short wave radio, to communicate between the engine and the caboose ....
The Terror - BBC drama inspired by the real-life story of Lincolnshire explorer s doomed Arctic expedition Ciaran Hinds stars as Spilsby s famous son Sir John Franklin Updated Ciaran Hinds as Sir John Franklin in The Terror Never miss another Lincolnshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Sir John Franklin s ill-fated 19th century mission to discover the North West Passage across the North American continent has become the stuff of legend. ....