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magazine
articles with a focus on industrial heritage
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"Six
Ships That Shook the World"
by Roger Archibald
Invention & Technology
Fall 1997
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In the late 1790s
America 's tiny navy was the most technologically advanced on earth,
thanks to its radical shipbuilding techniques.
U.S. Navy; frigates; USS
Constitution; USS Constellation; Joshua Humphreys; sea power; Naval
Act; Henry Knox; Josiah Fox; armaments; live oak; hogging; "Old
Ironsides"
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"Out
of Thin Air"
by Michael D. Haydock
Invention & Technology
Fall 1998
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Sheer will and
enthusiasm got the Berlin airlift started. Precise logistics and the
latest technology kept it from grinding to a halt.
Berlin airlift; Douglas
C-54 Skymaster; Maj. Gen. William Tunner; USAF; Cold War; aviation;
Douglas C-47; Tempelhof; Curtis LeMay; light wand
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"The
Annihilation of Time and Space"
by Curt Wohleber
Invention & Technology Spring/Summer 1991
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Critics said no steamboat could cross the
Atlantic. Junius Smith disagreed.
transatlantic; paddle steamers; steam packets; P.S.
Sirius; P.S. Great Western; Junius Smith; Isambard
Kingdom Brunel; British & American Steam Navigation Company; Savannah;
Royal William; New York; Cork; Bristol;
Dionysius Lardner; Samuel Cunard
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"How
They Got Planes on Ships"
by T.A. Heppenheimer
Invention & Technology
Summer 1994
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Building ships that
airplanes could safely land on took most of a decade. Deciding what
to do with them took even longer.
aircraft carriers;
zeppelins; Pacific; World War II; USS Langley (CV-1); seaplanes; HMS
Furious; USS Lexington; USS Saratoga; USS Ranger; flattops; Midway;
Coral Sea; Guadalcanal
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"The Airplane
That Flew into Space"
by Mark Wolverton
Invention & Technology
Summer 2001
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When America's most
skillful pilots started flying the rocket-powered X-15, it quickly
became clear that Mach 2 was for wimps.
Mach 6.7; Edwards Flight
Test Center; B-52; Scott Crossfield; North American Aviation; Neil
Armstrong; Robert M. White; Mercury; scramjet
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"The
Closing of the Aviation Frontier"
by T.A. Heppenheimer
Invention & Technology
Winter 1991
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For half a century
airplanes flew ever faster, ever higher. Then progress abruptly
reached its limits. The reasons are both technical and political.
Aviation; X-2; Mach 3;
Chuck Yeager; X-15; F-103; SR-71; XB-70 Valkyrie; B-52; NACA;
YF-12A; SST; U-2 spy plane; titanium
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"Mercury
Rising"
by Thomas D. Jones
Invention & Technology
Fall 2008
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NASA's first manned
spacecraft program proved what America could do with collective
effort, engineering skill, and determination.
Project Mercury; John
Glenn; NASA; Alan B. Shepard; Gordon Cooper; Friendship 7; Langley
Research Center; Sputnik; Gagarin; Mercury-Redstone; Atlas
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"Straight
Up"
by Curt Wohleber
Invention & Technology
Winter 1993
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Igor Sikorsky's dream
was to liberate transportation by introducing a flying machine that
could take off and land anywhere. He did it, but it took him a
lifetime.
Helicopters; S-51;
Andreas Feininger; Curtiss JN-4; Roscoe Turner, Howard Hughes;
Charles Lindbergh; American Clipper; Pan Am; Juan Trippe;
autogiros
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"The Letter That
Changed The Way We Fly"
by Frederick Allen
Invention
& Technology
Fall 1988
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The Douglas DC-3: The
plane that shattered records and revolutionized the industry.
DC-1; DC-2; DC-3;
Douglas Aircraft Corporation; Ford Tri-motor; Fokker monoplane;
United Airlines; Boeing 247
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"A
Silver Streak"
by Margaret Coel
Invention & Technology
Fall 1986
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The streamlined,
diesel-powered Zephyr transformed railroading in the 1930s.
Ralph Budd; Edward G. Budd; Harold L. Hamilton; Charles F.
Kettering; Budd Manufacturing Company;
Burlington Route; Chicago World's Fair; shotwelding; stainless
steel; 8 pgs., 7 figs.
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"The Diesel
Revolution"
by Maury Klein
Invention & Technology
Winter 1991
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It did more than make trains faster—it
swept away a century-old way of life.
Rudolf Diesel; Adolphus Busch; thermal efficiency and capability of
diesel vs.steam; two-cycle diesel engines; 1941 first main-line
freight run by diesel; restructuring the shop work force; 7 pgs., 6
figs.
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"M-300 to M-10000:
the
formative years"
by David P. Morgan
TRAINS November 1963
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First gasoline; then
distillate
"Doodlebugs;"
Chicago Great Western M-3000; Electro-Motive Company (EMC); General
Electric traction motors; Winton Engine Company; McKeen conversions;
M-10000; 7 pgs., 15 figs.
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"9900 to 9908:
the custom years"
by David P. Morgan
TRAINS January 1964
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When the customer was
always right
Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy; E.G. Budd Mfg. Co.; No.9900; Zephyr; two-cycle,
8-cylinder inline 201A diesel engine; Electro-Motive; customization;
Twin Zephyrs; Illinois Central; 5 pgs. 9 figs.
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"Daybreak
at La Grange"
by Mike Iczkowski
TRAINS August 1976
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How the Judgement
Seat was selected.
General Motors;
Electro-Motive Coporation; La Grange, Illinois; Richard M. Dilworth;
Harold L. Hamilton; Winton Motor Company; Cleveland; Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr.; Santa Fe SC switchers; diesel revolution.
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"The
Rise of the Interstates"
by T.A. Heppenheimer
Invention & Technology
Fall 1991
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How America built the
largest network of engineered structures on earth.
Futurama; 1939 World's
Fair in New York; early highways; New Jersey Turnpike; Maine
Turnpike; tollways; West Virginia Turnpike; Interstate Highway
System; Eisenhower; construction equipment
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