06:1306:13, 8 July 2022diffhist−8
Nickelodeon (film)
→Plot: The balloon was NOT a hot air balloon, a type which was practically extinct between circa 1790 and the 1950s (see poster image to confirm for this film); why do so many people invent this spurious detail in balloon references in articles?
14:0114:01, 16 May 2022diffhist−8
Great Moon Hoax
→Reactions: NOT a hot air balloon at all, according to the wikisource text of the story (I have no idea why people so often add this spurious detail to otherwise sound accounts, e.g. of a pre-1914 lady balloonist, when hot air balloons were just about only used in the early days and after the mid-20th century)
10:5110:51, 15 February 2022diffhist+7
German East Africa
→History: Heligoland had never been German before British rule, but rather Danish, and Tanzania did not exist until later (so only OK to mention it with that made clear); also clarifying famine orders
09:4609:46, 7 October 2021diffhist+13
Cone clutch
Combustion engines include such things as the (external combustion) engines of steam locomotives, which typically do not use clutches at all
10:2710:27, 9 August 2021diffhist+108
Corvée
→Madagascar: It appears that someone edited my original post in a way that not only altered the sense but also made it mismatch the rest of the sentence - so I am trying a different wording (I was not trying to say that the PROBLEMS were typical but that the APPROACH TO SOLVING THEM was)
08:4908:49, 20 May 2021diffhist+38
Eleanor Shelley-Rolls
Gas balloons were far more common than hot air balloons at that period, so these assertions shouldn't just reflect assumptions based on modern practice