Watch: Starship V3 lifts off

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Overview of the invention of the telephone, with a focus on the work by Alexander Graham Bell.

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Brazil is the world's leading producer of coffee beans.

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A U.S. Air Force KC-135A Stratotanker taking off during a test of experimental winglets, mid-1970s.

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The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by Orville Wright, shown here climbing into the pilot's seat. Wright and Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm are catapulted down a rail and launched into the air. The machine circles the field for 1 hour 12 minutes, setting a new world's record for time aloft with pilot and passenger.

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Efforts to reduce the noise generated by a helicopter's rotor blades.

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A U.S. Air Force C-17 taking off from Palmdale, California, c. 2003.

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This video shows a takeoff and landing of a crewed U.S. space shuttle. The shuttle's main components are a winged orbiter, a large external tank that carries the liquid fuel and oxidizer for the orbiter's three main engines, and two solid-fuel rocket boosters mounted on the sides of the external tank. The shuttle orbiter is a reusable spacecraft that reenters the atmosphere, makes an unpowered descent, and lands on a runway much like an airplane.