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Mannes, George
George Mannes is a reporter at TheStreet.com, an on-line financial-news publication. More >>

Mansfield, Howard
Howard Mansfield is a freelance writer who lives in Hancock, New Hampshire. More >>

Martinez, Ben
Ben Martinez is an artist in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, who illustrated The Splicing Handbook. More >>

Matthei, Harry
Harry Matthei retired last year after a career in advertising. He died in February of this year. More >>

May, Mike
MIKE MAY is a freelance writer living in Madison, Indiana. His most recent article for Invention & Technology was about the development of the first Texas Instruments calculator. More >>

Mayo, Isaac
George B. Kauffman, a professor of chemistry at Fresno State University, is the 1993 recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Pimentel Award in Chemical Education. More >>

Mccall, Edith
Edith McCall is the author of Conquering the Rivers: Henry Mill Shreve and the Navigation of America’s Inland Waterways (Louisiana State University, 1984). More >>

Mccarry, Miles R.
Miles R. McCarry is a livestock writer and retired artificial-insemination executive in Deltona, Florida. More >>

Mcconville, Daniel J.
Daniel J. McConville, a former construction and trucking contractor, is now a business, financial, and technology journalist in New York City. More >>

Mckelvey, John P.
John P. McKelvey, a condensed-matter physicist, is an adjunct professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University. More >>

Mcmillen, Wheeler
Wheeler McMillen, born in Ohio in 1893, was editor in chief of Farm Journal from 1939 to 1955. He lives in Virginia. More >>

Merry, Barbara A.

Barbara A. Merry is a marine rope worker with twenty years of experience in the splicing trade and the author of The Splicing Handbook, now in its third edition.

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Meyer, William B.
William B. Meyer wrote about the Hoosac Tunnel in the Fall 1985 issue. More >>

Middleton, William D.
William D. Middleton is the author of Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering (Indiana University Press, 1999). More >>

Millbrooke, Anne
Anne Millbrooke is corporate archivist at the Archive and Historical Resource Center of United Technologies, in East Hartford, Connecticut. More >>

Miller, Jeffrey W.
Jeffrey W Miller is a history and science writer in San Francisco. More >>

Miller, Ron
RON MILLER is an illustrator and author specializing in science, astronomy, and science fiction and is the co-author, with Frederick C. More >>

Minchinton, Walter
Walter Minchinton was a professor of economic history at the University of Exeter, England. More >>

Molella, Arthur
Arthur Molella is director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and a frequent contributor to Invention & Techno More >>

Monaco, Cynthia
Cynthia Monaco' 1988 article on early typewriters in Invention & Technology led to an exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Ms. More >>

Moon, Alyxandria

Alyxandria Moon is a senior at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. After graduating in May 2020, she plans to pursue a career in the editorial field and other related fields.

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Moran, Tim
Tim Moran is a freelance writer who concentrates on business, automotive, and technical subjects. He lives in Michigan. More >>

Moran, Barbara
Barbara Moran is an award-winning science journalist, television producer, and frequent contributor to Invention & Technology.

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Morison, Elting E.
Elting E. Morison was one of the nation's most distinguished historians and a founder of MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS. He died in 1995 at the age of 85.

Professor Morison, who held the Elizabeth and James R.

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Morse, Roger A.
Roger A. Morse is a professor of apiculture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. More >>

Morton, David
David Morton is a writer and web developer at George Tech with experience creating and delivering innovative, educational content through the new media. More >>

Mote, Clayton Daniel

Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. is President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering and was President of the University of Maryland, College Park from September 1998 until August 2010. More >>

Muller, Peter
Peter Muller is a writer and marketing consultant in Washington, D.C. More >>

Murphy, Douglas
Douglas Murphy is a reporter and freelance writer in Phoenix, Arizona. More >>
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