Winter 1998

Volume 13, Issue 3

FEATURES

How The Railroads Defeated Winter

THE SEASON NO LONGER MEANS HUNGER, SHIVERING, AND ISOLATION FOR AMERICANS, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT AGENT IN THIS TRANSFORMATION WAS THE RAILROADS

Patrick Allitt

The Inner Limits

FOR HALF A CENTURY we have been making remarkable headway in replacing damaged organs with artificial ones, but the frustrations remain immense
J. M. Fenster

The Instant Building

SIMPLE TO MANUFACTURE AND EASY TO assemble, the Quonset hut outlasted the war for which it was built

Michael Lamm

The Man Who Found The Universe In A Light Bulb

Irving Langmuir believed that ordinary electric bulbs were nothing less than a key to the science and technology of the twentieth century. He studied them as if they were gypsies’ crystal balls. And in them he actually did see the future.
T. A. Heppenheimer

The Oldest Cutting Edge

An appreciation of a vanishing technology and the artistry that went with it
Robert Kimber

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