Winter 2001

Volume 16, Issue 3

FEATURES

False Alarms

… and how inventors have strived to prevent them

Edward Nathan Singer

Road Signs For Airplanes

For years, town names painted on rooftops across the country were a pilot’s best navigational tool

Kevin L. Cook

The Biggest Mine

DANIEL JACKLING APPLIED THE MODERN TECHNIQUES OF MASS PRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT ART OF COPPER MINING AND PRODUCED ONE OF THE LARGEST TECHNOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS ON EARTH

Timothy J. Lecain

The Spacecraft That Will Not Die

Pioneer 10 , launched in 1972 and expected to complete its mission the next year, is still sending messages from far beyond Pluto, confounding even its makers

Mark Wolverton

What Edward Teller Did

His one good idea, a way to build hydrogen bombs, was a brilliant if harrowing triumph. From then on his influence kept growing even as his successes kept getting more modest.

T. A. Heppenheimer