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ANDREW FULLER is a freelance writer in Newport News, Virginia. More >>

ANNE COOPER FUNDERBURG is a freelance writer living in Mandeville, Louisiana. More >>

Louis Galambos is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. More >>

Ken Garber is a freelance writer on scientific and medical topics. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More >>

Thomas H. Carver is an art historian, independent curator, and tvriter in Madison, Wisconsin. More >>

J. Nadine Gelberg is a Ph.D. More >>

Bill George is a freelance writer in Longmont, Colorado. To find out more about windmills, see the quarterly Windmiller’s Gazette . Subscription information is available at P.O. More >>

Michael Gianturco is an investment adviser in Princeton, New Jersey He writes a column on science and technology for FORBES magazine. More >>

Kelly A. Giblin, a licensed professional engineer, wrote “Fire in the Cockpit,” about Apollo 1, in the Spring 1998 issue. More >>

Thomas D. Gibson is a mechanical engineer and freelance writer in Roanoke, Virginia. More >>

Tom Gibson, a mechanical engineer and freelance writer in Roanoke, Virginia, edits Progressive Engineer , a magazine devoted to engineering activities in the mid-Atlantic region. More >>

A prominent science fiction writer, William Gibson was described by The Guardian as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades". More >>

Jack Gieck is a retired product-development engineer in Akron, Ohio. More >>

Joseph Gies writes often on historical topics for Invention & Technology and other publications. More >>

Charles C. Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University. This article is adapted from a talk Dr. Gillispie recently gave before the American Philosophical Society. More >>

Vicki Goldberg is a noted photography critic and curator. The Wall Street Journal wrote that her book Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present is "one of the five best books of all time on photography."

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Dean J. Golembeski wrote “ Struggling to Become an Inventor ,” about Chester Carlson and xerography, in the Winter 1989 Invention & Technology . More >>

Judson Gooding, author of The Job Revolution , is a former foreign correspondent for Time and staff writer for Fortune More >>

David Gould is the former Executive Editor of Travel + Leisure Golf, former Editor-in-Chief of LINKS Magazine, and author of four books, including The Golfer's Code and Q School Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament, a his More >>

Walter C. Grantz was chief engineer for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District. He spent nearly forty years working on tunnels and marine structures for Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc.

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Neil A. Grauer is the author of Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). He lives in Baltimore. More >>

Steven Greenfield is a freelance writer in New York City. More >>

JOEL GROSSMAN is a freelance writer and has been a licensed agricultural pest-control adviser. More >>

John Grossmann is a freelance writer living in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. More >>

Edwin S. Grosvenor is the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines.

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Tim Hall is managing editor of the New York Hangover . More >>

RICHARD P. HALLION has been the U.S. Air Force Historian and was one of the founding curators of the National Air and Space Museum. More >>

Christopher Hallowell is a professor of English and journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York, and is the author of Growing Old, Staying Young , a book about aging and gerontological research published by William Morrow & Co. More >>

LINDA HAMILTON, a freelance writer, lives in Oakland, California. More >>

William Hammack is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois who has pioneered new and novel approaches to engineering outreach.

From 1999 to 2006, Prof.

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Douglas Hand is a free-lance writer with an interest in science, and lives in New York. He has written for Smithsonian, Life , and Geo . More >>

James R. Hansen is chairman of the history department at Auburn University. More >>

FRED HAPGOOD is a science and technology writer in Boston, Massachusetts. More >>

John S. Harris is a professor of English at Brigham Young University and an aircraft builder and pilot. More >>

Kirby J. Harrison is a photojournalist living in Hammondsport, New York. More >>

Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. More >>

Michael D. Haydock is the author of City Under Siege: The Berlin Blockade Airlift and is a frequent contributor to American History, Military History, Army Times, Buffalo Spree, and other publications. More >>

Jeff Hecht, a science writer in Massachusetts, is the author of City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Oxford University Press, 1999), from which this article is adapted. More >>

Thomas A. Heppenheimer is a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology. More >>

David V. Herlihy is a freelance writer living in Boston, Massachusett, and the author of Bicycle: The History and The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance. More >>

George W Hilton is a professor of economics at UCLA. More >>

Lynn Hinds, a former broadcast journalist, is an associate professor of broadcast news at West Virginia University. More >>

PHAEDRA HISE is a freelance business and aviation journalist and the author of Pilot Error: Anatomy of a Plane Crash . She is also a private pilot. More >>

Steven R. Hoffbeck teaches American history at the University of North Dakota. More >>

Larry C. Huffman, P.E., is a mining engineer who lives in Butte, Montana. More >>

Gen. John Hoover entered the U.S. Army in 1943 and retired in 1978. He holds degrees from West Point and Georgetown University. More >>

Mary Blye Howe is a freelance writer living in Duncanville, Texas. More >>

BENJAMIN RYDER HOWE is a senior editor at The Paris Review . More >>

Thomas P. Hughes is Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More >>