Fall 1996

Volume 12, Issue 2

FEATURES

Black Box

FLIGHT RECORDERS have progressed from tiny dots on aluminum foil to silicon chips recording hundreds of parameters, invulnerable to dozens of kinds of assaults—and saving many thousands of lives
Vanda Sendzimir

By Steam To The Moon

IN THE EARLY 1960s one company tried to close the missile gap by adapting nineteenth-century-technology
Jack Gieck

Inside The Panama Canal

Experiencing the Engineering Wonder of the Century
Frederick Allen

Kettering

CASH REGISTERS, AIRPLANES , locomotives, refrigerators, and especially automobiles: Vast areas of industry were touched by his genius
Oliver E. Allen

The Birth Of Cable Tv

HALF A CENTURY ago a few small-town tinkerers bought some simple equipment and accidentally founded a multibillion-dollar industry
George Mannes

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