Winter 1999

Volume 14, Issue 3

FEATURES

Howard Hughes
The Innovator

HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR AND DISABLING ECCENTRICITIES ARE FAR FROM THE WHOLE STORY; HE MADE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS IN A NUMBER OF TECHNOLOGICAL FIELDS
T. A. Heppenheimer

Introducing…clean Water

Benjamin Latrobe planned much of early Washington, designed roads and canals, built steam engines from scratch, and, far more important, devised and installed the country’s first safe, healthy water systems—at the cost, ultimately, of his life
Darwin H. Stapleton

The Conquest Of Diabetes

A lone, inexperienced doctor saw the answer that countless others had missed
J. M. Fenster

The Ghost Fleet Of Mallows Bay

WHAT IS AN ENTIRE DERELICT FLEET DOING IN A SECLUDED CORNER OF THE POTOMAC?
Donald G. Shomette

The Secret Triumph Of American Engineering

Thomas P. Hughes argues that we have a positive national genius for success at massive projects of the government-industrial-university complex
Fredric Smoler

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS

Letters

Notes From the Field

Things To Come
Frederic D. Schwarz

THEY’RE STILL THERE

Old Hat
Frederick Allen

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