Winter 2009

Volume 23, Issue 4

FEATURES

America’s Top 10 Public Works Projects

Since our nation’s founding, politicians have debated how far the federal government should go in supporting large infrastructure projects

Tom Huntington

The Kentucky Rifle

German gunsmiths in Colonial America invented a gun that changed the course of history

Alexander Rose

The Model T Turns 100!

Henry Ford’s innovative design suited the nation to a T

Robert H. Casey

The Other Renewable Energy

Eighty years ago, a brilliant French inventor stakes—and lost—his considerable fortune on developing ocean thermal energy, but his dream of harnessing unlimited energy from the sea still lives today

James R. Chiles

War On Ice

You could owe your life to a handful of scientists who are battling one of the greatest dangers in aviation—the accumulation of small amounts of ice on aircraft

Mark Wolverton