Frederic D. Schwarz

Why a 65-year-old navigation system might not be ready for retirement

A book details the engineering that went into the Pentagon

Two books show how communications technology has given the U.S. a great military advantage

Will new technology reduce voting problems or increase them?

Picturephone is the technology of the future—always has been, always will be

What happens when a nineteenth-century bridge has to meet twenty-first-century standards

It’s All In The Timing

On the Internet, a pair of photographers lovingly document relics of a lost industrial age

A piece of modern camping equipment goes way, way back

Some of our nation’s less flamboyant roadside attractions get fixed up