Joseph Gies writes often on historical topics for Invention & Technology and other publications. He is the coauthor, with Frances Gies, of Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages , published earlier this year by HarperCollins.
Articles by this Contributor
Summer 1994
Peter Cooper devised valuable inventions in many areas, from glue manufacture to railroads to iromworking. His most important one may have been the most basic: free education for all.
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Frederick Winslow Taylor brought efficiency engineering to the workplace. It was feared and fought, but it has never left. Read >>
Winter 1990
Cyrus McCormick won it—his famed Virginia reaper came to dominate America’s harvests—but he didn’t win by building the first reaper or, initially, the best
Read >>Fall 1990
He was already pioneering steam navigation, industrial automation, and a precursor to the automobile before the nineteenth century began
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