Christopher Howland

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Enhanced Efficiency of Latent Heat Energy Storage by Inclination

Nov 5, 2024 | link.aps.org | Rui Yang |Aerospace Engineering |Christopher Howland |College Dublin

Latent heat storage (LHS) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the challenges of large-scale and long-term energy storage, offering a clean and reusable system. Being in the developmental stage, and with only limited theoretical predictions being available, there is a need to enhance the efficiency of LHS systems. In this study, we use numerical simulations to study the melting process of a phase-change material (PCM) in a rectangular domain.
New Book Provides Long-Awaited Ground-Level Look at Combat Effectiveness

Feb 1, 2024 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

The exploration of unusual subjects—anything from flora and fauna to the effect of weather on the fighting—has increased greatly for Civil War audiences in recent years. Scott Hippensteel, professor of earth sciences at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte, is among those leading this continual growth.
Spy Moves

Jan 18, 2024 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

Actor Sean Connery and author Ian Fleming discuss James Bond on the movie set of “Goldfinger” in 1963. Although Fleming reportedly was initially opposed to having Connery portray the iconic 007 in the first film adaption of his novels, Dr. No, Connery would prove to be a very prescient selection for the role, which he reprised in six more films over the next 22 years.
Stay! Good Boy!

Jan 15, 2024 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

If, according to family lore passed down since the war, the story behind this wonderful “cabinet card” photograph is true, it is remarkable. The principals are identified as Union General Philip Sheridan and his “assistant” Crosby — John Schuyler Crosby, that is. The exact location is uncertain, but likely Tennessee. The story: That Sheridan and Crosby, while hunting for food, were forced to wait on the stoop of a Southern-leaning family’s home for that food.
Historic Voyage

Dec 21, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

Warren G. Harding, the subject of a fascinating article in our upcoming Spring 2024 issue, was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Alaska and Canada, doing so as part of his “Voyage of Understanding” in the summer of 1923. Harding poses here with his wife, Florence, and Alaska’s territorial governor Scott C. Bones. How cold it was exactly that day we might never know, but it was August.
Equine Makeover

Dec 15, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

Union personnel prepare to shoe a horse in one of the Army of the Potomac’s temporary blacksmith shops at Petersburg, Va., in August 1864. We take a closer look at immigrant inventor Henry Burden of Troy, N.Y., and the crucial role he and his horseshoes played in the Union Army’s military success during the war. Our 9 best-selling history titles feature in-depth storytelling and iconic imagery to engage and inform on the people, the wars, and the events that shaped America and the world.
Communication Pipeline

Dec 15, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

The men, animals, and wagons of the U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps at Brandy Station, Va., in a February 1864 photograph by Timothy H. O’Sullivan. The lone soldier propped atop the pole in the back, it seems, had the riskiest job of the lot, responsible for securing the telegraph lines to the posts. Our 9 best-selling history titles feature in-depth storytelling and iconic imagery to engage and inform on the people, the wars, and the events that shaped America and the world.
Non-Shake Shack

Nov 7, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

Skip to content Levity usually isn’t a characteristic of the caption information provided with image files at the Library of Congress, but whoever penned one for this original stereograph of a “bomb-proof restaurant on the Petersburg line” couldn’t help themselves: “Who but a ‘Yank’ would think of starting a ‘store’ or restaurant on the line of battle where shot and shell are constantly falling? The sign over the door, ‘Fruit & Oyster House,’ looks as though it might have been ‘captured’ by...
Fateful Moment in Time

Nov 7, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

“Welcome to D” reads a banner on a bus’s window as John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passes an enthusiastic throng of spectators on the streets of Dallas on November 22, 1963, none of them suspecting the horror that would unfold mere moments later just yards away.
Cauldron of Peace

Nov 7, 2023 | historynet.com | Christopher Howland

Skip to content As the war waged in 1863, there were still areas clear of any military conflict. One of those was the elaborate Central Park right in the heart of New York City.