Spring 2003

Volume 18, Issue 4

FEATURES

“Inventing Is a Lot Like Surfing”

RAYMOND KURZWEIL IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INDEPENDENT INVENTORS LIVING-AND ONE OF THE MOST AUDACIOUS TECHNOLOGICAL PROPHETS.

Jim Quinn

Chicago’s War With Water

ON ITS WAY TO PIONEERING OUR MODERN SEWER SYSTEM, CHICAGO SURVIVED EPIDEMICS, FLOODS, AND COUNTLESS BAD PLANS
Daniel E. Capano

Mission Control

HOW A SYMBOL OF MODERNITY BECAME DANGEROUSLY OLD-FASHIONED AND THEN RETURNED TO THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY
Bridget Mintz Testa

The Gimmick That Ate Hollywood

WHEN HOLLYWOOD ADDED A NEW DIMENSION TO THE MOVIES, CUSTOMERS GASPED—AND THEN YAWNED

Tom Huntington

The Splinter Fleet

An unlikely group of little wooden submarine chasers engaged in America’s only naval combat in World War I
David Douglas

Windmill

IT WAS NOT WHAT IT NOW SEEMS

Kentworth Edel

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