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Thomas Huntington is the managing editor of Air & Space magazine. More >>

Tom Huntington is a Senior Editor of American Heritage and a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology. His writing has also appeared in Smithsonian, Civil War Times, America's Civil War, Yankee, America in WWII, and many other p More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

Dennis Karwatka is an associate professor of industrial education and technology at Morehead State University, in Kentucky. More >>

Jack Kelly, a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology, explores the history of black powder in his book Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics (Basic Books). More >>

Robert Kimber writes often for outdoor, environmental, and regional magazines and has had a regular column in both Country Journal and Down East maga More >>

Mark Kinsler is an electrical engineer and educator in Athens, Ohio. More >>

Estelle Fox Kleiger is the author of The Trial of Levi Weeks, Or the Manhattan Well Mystery (Academy Chicago, 1989). She lives in Scarsdale, New York. More >>

Maury Klein is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. More >>

Gerard Koeppel is an editor at CBS News who is working on a biography of Christopher Colles. He lives in New York City. More >>

Josef W. More >>

Thomas Kraemer is a former Hewlett-Packard engineering manager who has witnessed the development of inkjet technology over the last 25 years. More >>

Marshall Krantz is a freelance writer living in Oakland, California. More >>

Anita is a Canadian freelance author who has written on a diverse range of subjects, including industrial waste controversies, climate change science, art, books, culture and prominent or controversial figures. More >>

Michael Lamm served as managing editor of Motor Trend in the 1960s, started an auto-history magazine in 1970, and formed a book publishing company, Lamm-Morada Inc., in 1978. More >>

JAMES LAMONT is a writer who lives in Deerfield, Illinois. More >>

Paul Lancaster, a free-lance writer, is currently working on a book about nineteenthcentury newspaper reporters. More >>

Ralph Landau (1916–2004) founded one of the world’s most successful engineering and design firms, Scientific Design Company, Inc., and its successor corporations, which developed and commercialized nearly a dozen processes for producing petrochemicals. More >>

David Lander is editor-at-large of Audio magazine. More >>

Benjamin Lawless retired as an assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in 1981 and is now a consultant on exhibition design, author, and a film maker. More >>

Jackson Lears is the author of Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (Basic Books, 1994). He is working on a book about luck and the American imagination. More >>

Joseph Leary is a writer, producer, and director of video and film projects. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut. More >>

Stanley Lebar retired from an engineering career with Westinghouse in 1988. More >>

Timothy J. LeCain is an adjunct professor of history at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. More >>

DAN LEDNICER, a medicinal, organic chemist, is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books on drug research, including, most recently, Strategies for Organic Drug Synthesis and Design More >>

Judith Yaross Lee is an assistant professor of journalism and interpersonal communication at Ohio University and is the author, most recently, of Garrison Keillor A Voice of America ( More >>

Michael Lennick produced and directed the PBS documentary “Dr. Teller’s Very Large Bomb,” a subject he wrote about in the Summer 2005 issue of Invention & Technology. More >>

STUART LEUTHNER wrote “ The Windmills That Won the West ” in the Fall 2003 issue. More >>

Tom Lewis is Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility and a professor of English at Skidmore College. More >>

Calvin Lieberman is a nationally known consultant on environmental and legislative issues with an office in ‘Toledo, Ohio. He has worked in the scrap and solid-waste fields for more than 60 years. More >>

Peter Liebhold is the Chair of the Division of Work and Industry at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.

Throughout his professional life Mr.

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David Lindsay wrote the profile of George Squier that appears in this issue. More >>

Robert H. Lochte is a professor in the department of journalism and mass communications at Murray State University in Kentucky. More >>

Bobby Lowich is a New York City cab historian and driver. More >>

Steven Lubar is a professor in the department of American civilization and director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Professor Lubar directs Brown's Public Humanities

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Paul Lucier is a graduate student in the department of history at Princeton University. More >>