Science: Deadly Effect

Last week the venerable Scientific American (founded 1845) reprinted parts of an article on up-&-coming military technology. The article first appeared just 50 years ago, in its issue of November 1889:

"The art of war is now borrowing from applied science all the resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in...

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