Spring 1992

Volume 7, Issue 4

FEATURES

Amazing Light

How a handful of scientists and engineers made an arcane phenomenon of quantum physics into a powerful, now commonplace technology—the laser

Joan Lisa Bromberg

Lowell

Revisiting the Birth of Industry in America
Judith Yaross Lee

Secretly Going Nuclear

Two men in a government aeronautics lab attempted fusion before World War II. Their work remains one of the great might-have-beens of science.
James R. Hansen

The Bicycle Story

It was born in Europe, but American ingenuity and know-how helped bring it to maturity—and affordability—in the years before automobiles took over
David V. Herlihy

The Machines Of Nowhere

How the emptiest expanse of nothing in America—the Bonneville Salt Flats—became the world capital for the technological enthusiasts who pursue ultimate speed

Robert C. Post

The Razor King

King Camp Gillette created a revolution in shaving. He tried to create a revolution in society too—but no one cared.
Howard Mansfield

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS

LETTERS

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

Shot Talk
Frederic D. Schwarz

POSTFIX

Machine Politics
Frederic D. Schwarz

THEY’RE STILL THERE

Woodwork
Richard F. Snow

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