Fall 2003

Volume 19, Issue 2

FEATURES

“I Was Sitting There with My Feet Up on the Desk … and Suddenly It Came To Me.…”

RICHARD WHITCOMB DISCUSSES HOW HE GOT TO BE ONE OF THE LEADING AVIATION INVENTORS OF THE LAST HALF-CENTURY

Jim Quinn

A Capsule History

MICROSCOPIC SHELLS FILLED WITH CHEMICALS ARE THE KEY TO TECHNOLOGIES RANGING FROM AGRICULTURE TO PHARMACEUTICALS
Dan Lednicer

The Windmills That Won The West

THEY WERE AS IMPORTANT AS RAILROADS OR HORSES-AS A NEW MUSEUM RECOGNIZES

Stuart Leuthner

The Wright Brothers How They Failed

THE GREAT INVENTORS TURNED OUT TO BE TERRIBLE BUSINESSMEN
Phaedra Hise

The Wright Brothers How They Flew

BY BEING BOTH MORE IMAGINATIVE AND MORE METHODICAL THAN ANYONE WHO CAME BEFORE THEM, THEY INVENTED A NEW AGE
Richard P. Hallion

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