Winter 2007

Volume 22, Issue 3

FEATURES

High Tech From The Dark Ages

An ingenious technique of modern metallurgy turns out to be a millennium old
Davis L. Baughman

Hold The Phone

Motorola told its engineers: “We need a hand-held mobile telephone in three months.” Nobody had ever made one before.
Stewart Wolpin

Snow Biz

Tom Lecompte

The Cell-phone Revolution

The idea is 60 years old, but it took decades to make it possible and decades more to make it commonplace
Tom Farley

U-2

The legendary spy plane broke all the rules in both how it was developed and how it was flown
Tom Huntington

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