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Spring 2002


Volume 17, Issue 4

FEATURES

HOW A USELESS LAB ANOMALY GREW UP TO BECOME AN INDISPENSABLE PART OF HUNDREDS OF EVERYDAY DEVICES

IN EARLY AMERICA, PAINT WAS EXPENSIVE, PERISHABLE, AND TEMPERAMENTAL, AND YOU HAD TO MAKE IT YOURSELF. HENRY SHERWIN TURNED IT INTO THE DURABLE MANUFACTURED COMMODITY IT IS TODAY.

THE STRANGE EPIC OF THE UGLY AIRPLANE THAT GOT US TO THE MOON

He never trained as a chemist, yet he became one of America’s greatest, and his crowning achievement brought the world huge benefits and an environmental disaster

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