Spring 1994

Volume 9, Issue 4

FEATURES

A Manned Moon Shot — In 1865

Jules Verne described it in his novel From the Earth to the Moon that year, and he got an amazing amount right

Jack Gieck

Deep-sea Diving A Century Ago

It was treacherous hard work, depending on technology that was barely good enough to make it possible

Kenneth D. Ackerman

Eads and the Navy of the Mississippi

At the start of the Civil War, James B. Eads built a fleet of gunboats of a type never before imagined, with only rough sketches to guide him, from scratch—in two months

Elmer Gaden Jr.

How We Got Frozen Food

Clarence Birdseye found a simple, effective way to do the freezing, but that was just the first step

Rudi Volti

Inventing Electrocution

Prominent medical, legal, and technical minds in New York and New Jersey spent four years figuring out how to do it. The result was not exactly a triumph.

James F. Penrose