Fall 1995

Volume 11, Issue 2

FEATURES

Behind The Dentist’s Drill

THE TECHNOLOGY for treating mankind’s most widespread disease has been steadily improving for centuries, but until recently it was almost always simply too painful to use

Malvin E. Ring

Day Of The Daredevil

BETWEEN THEM , two men incarnate the first era of aviation in America. They—and the age—couldn’t last.

Richard Reinhardt

My Father The Inventor

HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST of the truly successful independent inventors, a dreamer and visionary and dominating man who made a lasting mark in the down-to-earth world of the steel-rolling mill

Vanda Sendzimir

Seaway To Nowhere

IT TOOK MORE THAN four centuries for the St. Lawrence Seaway to be built—and less than two decades for it to become obsolete

Daniel J. Mcconville

The Old High-tech Hotel

A CENTURY AND a half ago a new luxury hotel in America had to have not only the finest appointments but also the latest technology. It’s been true ever since.

Molly W. Berger