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TIM PALUCKA is a freelance writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. More >>

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is co-founder of the Palo Alto Strategy Studio, a futures research group located in Silicon Valley, California. More >>

Kermit Pattison, a writer from St. Paul, Minnesota, has written for various publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Runner’s World, and Time. More >>

Henry M. Paynter is a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is another resident inventor of Pittsford, Vermont. More >>

Tom Peeler is a freelance writer in De Soto, Texas. More >>

James E Penrose is a freelance writer. More >>

JOHN PERLIN is the author, most recently, of From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity . More >>

Noel Perrin, a professor of English at Dartmouth, is the author of several books, including Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 . More >>

Ed Pershey is task-force director with the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. More >>

Tom F. Peters is an associate professor of architecture at Cornell University. More >>

Michael Peterson is a freelance writer and photographer in Hardwick, New Jersey. More >>

Henry Petroski is a professor of history and Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University. His book Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering has fust been published by Knopf. More >>

Roger Pinckney is a horseman and rifleman from Otter Tail County, Minnesota, and is writer in residence at the Rothsay, Minnesota, public schools. More >>

DAVID PLOWDEN’S photographs have been widely exhibited. The new edition of Bridges: The Spans of North America has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company. More >>

Norman PolmarNorman Polmar is an analyst, consultant, and author specializing in nava More >>

Glenn Porter is director of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. More >>

Robert C. Post is former curator of transportation at the Smithsonian Institution. He was editor of Technology and Culture from 1981 through 1995 and president of the Society for the History of Technology in 1997–98.

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Carmine Prioli is is an English professor and the director of graduate programs in the English Department at North Carolina State. His publications include The Poems of General George S. More >>

Emily Prokop is a podcaster, consultant and author of The Story Behind: The Extraordinary Histor More >>

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