Jack Gieck is a retired product-development engineer in Akron, Ohio. Articles by this Contributor Fall 1996 By Steam To The Moon IN THE EARLY 1960s one company tried to close the missile gap by adapting nineteenth-century-technology Read >> Spring 1994 A Manned Moon Shot — In 1865 Jules Verne described it in his novel From the Earth to the Moon that year, and he got an amazing amount right Read >>