Skip to main content

Winter 2004


Volume 19, Issue 3

FEATURES

Howard Head reinvented the equipment for two sports—skiing and tennis—so that everyone could be a winner
WHEN CONGRESS MANDATED A 90 PERCENT CUT IN AUTO EMISSIONS, ALMOST NO ONE THOUGHT IT COULD BE ACHIEVED. THE INVENTORS OF THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER PROVED OTHERWISE.
We could have launched an Earth-orbiting satellite more than a year before the Soviets, but we intentionally held back. And by handing them a propaganda triumph, we ensured their ultimate defeat in the Cold War.

A NEW TEXTBOOK FINALLY PUTS TECHNOLOGY WHERE IT HAS ALWAYS BELONGED IN AMERICAN HISTORY: FRONT AND CENTER

SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE, OR CON GAME? IT’S A LITTLE BIT OF EACH.

THOMAS FOGARTY STARTED CHANGING THE WORLD OF SURGERY WHEN HE WAS STILL A TEENAGER

DEPARTMENTS

HALL OF FAME REPORT

LETTERS

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

OBJECT LESSONS

POSTFIX

We hope you enjoyed this essay.

Please support America's only magazine of the history of engineering and innovation, and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to Invention & Technology.

Donate

Stay informed - subscribe to our newsletter.
The subscriber's email address.