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Rhodri Evans is a senior lecturer in physics and astrophysics at the University of Namibia.

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Tom Farley is a freelance technology writer and the founder of privateline.com, a website devoted to telecommunications which he had produced since 1995. More >>

Julie M. Fenster is an award-winning author and historian, and frequent contributor to Invention & TechnologyAmerican Heritage and other magazines.

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Joel A. Tarr is a professor of history and public policy and associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Steven J. More >>

Eugene S. Ferguson is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Delaware. More >>

David E. Fisher is a professor of cosmochemistry at the University of Miami and the author of twenty previous books. Marshall Jon Fisher lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More >>

Keith Fitzgerald is the associate editor of Invention & Technology and American Heritage magazines. More >>

Thomas Fleming is the author of 23 books of history and several novels, a frequent contributor to American Heritage Magazine and former president of the Society of American Historians. More >>

James J. Flink is professor emeritus of social sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Automobile Age (MIT Press, 1988). More >>

Stephen Fox’s article “The Strange Triumph of Abner Doble” appeared in the Summer 1998 issue. More >>

A contributing editor of Invention and Technology since 1985, Robert Friedel is a professor at the University of Maryland. More >>

Herbert M. Friedman is a corporate lawyer and a pilot who has been studying aviation history since he was a child. More >>

ANDREW FULLER is a freelance writer in Newport News, Virginia. More >>

ANNE COOPER FUNDERBURG is a freelance writer living in Mandeville, Louisiana. More >>

Louis Galambos is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. More >>

Ken Garber is a freelance writer on scientific and medical topics. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More >>

Thomas H. Carver is an art historian, independent curator, and tvriter in Madison, Wisconsin. More >>

William H. Gates III, or Bill Gates, is a businessman, software developer, and philanthropist. More >>

J. Nadine Gelberg is a Ph.D. More >>

Bill George is a freelance writer in Longmont, Colorado. To find out more about windmills, see the quarterly Windmiller’s Gazette . Subscription information is available at P.O. More >>

Michael Gianturco is an investment adviser in Princeton, New Jersey He writes a column on science and technology for FORBES magazine. More >>

Kelly A. Giblin, a licensed professional engineer, wrote “Fire in the Cockpit,” about Apollo 1, in the Spring 1998 issue. More >>

Tom Gibson, a mechanical engineer and freelance writer in Roanoke, Virginia, edits Progressive Engineer , a magazine devoted to engineering activities in the mid-Atlantic region. More >>

A prominent science fiction writer, William Gibson was described by The Guardian as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades". More >>

Thomas D. Gibson is a mechanical engineer and freelance writer in Roanoke, Virginia. More >>

Jack Gieck is a retired product-development engineer in Akron, Ohio. More >>

Joseph Gies writes often on historical topics for Invention & Technology and other publications. More >>

Charles C. Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University. This article is adapted from a talk Dr. Gillispie recently gave before the American Philosophical Society. More >>

Brent D. Glass is Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the world’s largest museum devoted to telling the story of America. More >>

Vicki Goldberg is a noted photography critic and curator. The Wall Street Journal wrote that her book Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present is "one of the five best books of all time on photography."

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Dean J. Golembeski wrote “ Struggling to Become an Inventor ,” about Chester Carlson and xerography, in the Winter 1989 Invention & Technology . More >>

Judson Gooding, author of The Job Revolution , is a former foreign correspondent for Time and staff writer for Fortune More >>

George Goss  is the assistant editor and director of video production at American Heritage's Invention & Technology. In 2017, he graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. More >>

David Gould is the former Executive Editor of Travel + Leisure Golf, former Editor-in-Chief of LINKS Magazine, and author of four books, including The Golfer's Code and Q School Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament, a his More >>

Walter C. Grantz was chief engineer for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District. He spent nearly forty years working on tunnels and marine structures for Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc.

Much of Mr.

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Neil A. Grauer is the author of Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). He lives in Baltimore. More >>

Steven Greenfield is a freelance writer in New York City. More >>

JOEL GROSSMAN is a freelance writer and has been a licensed agricultural pest-control adviser. More >>

John Grossmann is a freelance writer living in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. More >>

Edwin S. Grosvenor is the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines.

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Tim Hall is managing editor of the New York Hangover . More >>

RICHARD P. HALLION has been the U.S. Air Force Historian and was one of the founding curators of the National Air and Space Museum. More >>

Christopher Hallowell is a professor of English and journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York, and is the author of Growing Old, Staying Young , a book about aging and gerontological research published by William Morrow & Co. More >>

LINDA HAMILTON, a freelance writer, lives in Oakland, California. More >>

William Hammack is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois who has pioneered new and novel approaches to engineering outreach.

From 1999 to 2006, Prof.

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Douglas Hand is a free-lance writer with an interest in science, and lives in New York. He has written for Smithsonian, Life , and Geo . More >>

Bruce Hannon is a Professor Emeritus in Geography & Geographic Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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James R. Hansen is chairman of the history department at Auburn University. More >>

FRED HAPGOOD is a science and technology writer in Boston, Massachusetts. More >>

John S. Harris is a professor of English at Brigham Young University and an aircraft builder and pilot. More >>

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