MARK BERNSTEIN is the author of Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century-Dayton and the Inventing of America (1996). Articles by this Contributor Fall 2010Freon Summer 2005How The Airplane Learned To Fly It happened 100 years ago on a field in Ohio Read >> Spring 2002Thomas Midgley And The Law Of Unintended Consequences He never trained as a chemist, yet he became one of America’s greatest, and his crowning achievement brought the world huge benefits and an environmental disaster Read >>