Jack Gieck is a retired product-development engineer in Akron, Ohio. Articles by this Contributor Fall 1996By Steam To The Moon IN THE EARLY 1960s one company tried to close the missile gap by adapting nineteenth-century-technology Read >> Spring 1994A Manned Moon Shot — In 1865 Jules Verne described it in his novel From the Earth to the Moon that year, and he got an amazing amount right Read >>