A story first
The experiment that found nothing
In Cleveland in 1887 two men looked for an ether wind and published a null. They did not know what the nothing would later be asked to mean.
Cleveland · ether wind · a published nothing
Theme
Chance
What do we make of what nobody planned?
A contaminated plate, a wrong turn, weather. Chance is a territory. It is not a hidden author.
- The uninvited guestSt. Mary’s · chance · a contaminated plate
- Along the lineFlanders · Christmas 1914 · unofficial, unfinished
- The hole they did not expectHalley Bay · 1985 · a measurement kept
- The pulse that was not interferenceCambridge · 1967 · a chart that was not noise
- The grid she leftBrooklyn · 1948 · a table of triplets
- The solar batteryMurray Hill · 1954 · a made current
- No hydraulicsSioux City · 1989 · engines as rudder
- LOBoelter Hall · 29 October 1969 · two letters
- The last caseMerca · 1977 · a cook, then none
- WowOhio · 1977 · seventy-two seconds
- The little shipsDunkirk · 26 May 1940 · an operation, first day slow
- The curveMauna Loa · 29 March 1958 · a first day