Fall 1992

Volume 8, Issue 2

FEATURES

Form Follows Failure

Invention is an unending succession of imperfections. A case in point: the beer can.
Henry Petroski

Heating Up The Cold War

Missiles and nuclear submarines and hydrogen warheads came forth in a single decade, transfiguring both war and peace forever
T. A. Heppenheimer

Keeping Time

The world’s greatest collection of clocks is underneath a motel in Rockford, Illinois

Thomas H. Carver

The Infinite Straightway

American auto racing came of age on banked wooden loops. The racetracks are forgotten, but they shaped the way we still race today.
Michael Gianturco

The Pumps Of New Orleans

Most of New Orleans is below sea level, and a good rainfall used to submerge it—until A. Baldwin Wood designed and installed a massive system of pumps to drain 20 million gallons a minute
Sebastian Junger

DEPARTMENTS

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