Winter 2006

Volume 21, Issue 3

FEATURES

A Lake By Mistake

The Salton Sea was created a century ago by disastrous civil engineering. Now people are trying to figure out how to save it.
Steven Greenfield

Going Nowhere Fast

The supersonic transport was both inevitable and beneficial—until it turned out to be neither
Don Bedwell

King Kong

How the greatest special-effects movie was made with the simplest technology
Tom Huntington

Our Daily Thread

Dental floss is a great underappreciated invention
Malvin E. Ring

The Strongest Handshake In The World

A lone inventor and a lone crusader gave the world a safe device to hold railroad cars together
John H. White, Jr.

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