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Spring 1994


Volume 9, Issue 4

FEATURES

Jules Verne described it in his novel From the Earth to the Moon that year, and he got an amazing amount right
It was treacherous hard work, depending on technology that was barely good enough to make it possible

At the start of the Civil War, James B. Eads built a fleet of gunboats of a type never before imagined, with only rough sketches to guide him, from scratch—in two months

Clarence Birdseye found a simple, effective way to do the freezing, but that was just the first step
Prominent medical, legal, and technical minds in New York and New Jersey spent four years figuring out how to do it. The result was not exactly a triumph.

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

POSTFIX

THEY’RE STILL THERE

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