Spring/Summer 1989

Volume 5, Issue 1

FEATURES

America’s Golden Age

This historian believes the nation’s technological flowering from 1870 to 1970 will be compared someday to the Renaissance in Italy

Arthur Molella

Crisis Behind The TVA

Any large technological undertaking raises deep philosophical questions. But disputes about the Tennessee Valley Authority endangered the whole project.

Kenneth S. Davis

King Lear

The turbulent career of a brilliant and driven inventor-entrepreneur
T. A. Heppenheimer

The Future Of An Explosion

When early steamboats began blowing up, who was supposed to stop the deadly horror? The answer affects Americans to this day.
John K. Ward

The Tower Of Tools

Henry Mercer’s monument to the implements that made America
Frederick Allen

Understanding Superconductivity

Is this hot field really a key to technologies of the future? A physicist looks at its history and finds some clues.
John P. Mckelvey

What Is This Man Up To?

His job was indispensable in an earlier electric age
William Worthington, Jr.

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