All-around Praise

Your Fall 1989 issue was the best I have seen. I was particularly pleased with Henry Petroski’s article about Thoreau, since I have been an admirer of both Thoreau and Petroski. I also liked the piece about clipper ships, since I am a native of Baltimore and take an interest in them. The piece about the Sidewinder I liked largely because my job is chief of an Army laboratory, and finally I liked the piece about the Waring blender because I have one that I bought around 1941 and it’s still going good. Congratulations.

In memoriam: Hal Bowser, a contributing editor of American Heritage of Invention & Technology , died of a heart attack at his home in New York City in January 1990. He was an invaluable contributor of both ideas and articles to our earliest issues. He was an excellent friend to the magazine and always a joy to work with. We will miss him.