Fall 1987

When we mobilized technology for Cold War and space, we paid a price in more than dollars

When Albert A. Michelson devised ways to measure the speed of light, he both helped pave the way for relativity and opened a new field of scientific instrumentation

It took more than a decade to lay a telegraph wire across the Atlantic, but for modern international communication, that was just the beginning

For three generations the Stevenses of New Jersey applied their inventive genius to steamboats, railroads, naval warfare, and a host of other technologies

In the 1870s and the 1880s a profusion of new ideas, new technologies, and new social demands converged in Chicago to produce the modern skyscraper. Why did it all come together then and there?