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Donald Dale Jackson is a freelance writer in Newtown, Connecticut. His books include Gold Dust (Knopf, 1980). More >>

Kirk Jeffrey is a professor of history at Carleton College in Northfteld, Minnesota. More >>

Ann Jensen is a free-lance writer living in Annapolis, Maryland, who specializes in maritime subjects. More >>

Richard R. John is a historian of communications who currently teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. More >>

Richard A. Johnson is the author of Six Men Who Built the Modern Auto Industry (2005), published by Motorbooks. More >>

Stephen Joiner writes about aviation from his home in Southern California. More >>

Dr. Thomas D. Jones is a scientist, author, pilot, and former NASA astronaut. He holds a doctorate in planetary sciences, and in more than eleven years with NASA, flew on four space shuttle missions to Earth orbit. On his last flight, Dr. More >>

John H. White, Jr., is senior historian emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution and professor of history and mechanical engineering at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. More >>

Loyd S. More >>

Edwin T. Layton, Jr. (1929-2009) was president of the Society for the History of Technology and a professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota from 1975 until his retirement in 1998. More >>

William Worthington, Jr., a specialist in engineering and industry at the National Museum of American History, wrote about the early history of escalators in our Winter 1989 issue. More >>

Elmer L. Gaden, Jr. (1924-2012) was the Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Gaden was founder of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Journal, which he edited until 1983.

Gaden earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D.

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JOSEPH E. VOLLMAR, JR., lives in St. Louis. He asks that readers with any information about the model or photographs of it contact this publication. More >>

Sebastian Junger is an author, journalist and documentarian, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the 2010 movie Restrepo, and his 2 More >>