Spring 2004

Volume 19, Issue 4

FEATURES

”I Was a Dennis the Menace. I Drove People Crazy.”

Forrest Bird’s curiosity was always insatiable, and it led him to an invention that has kept thousands of babies alive

Jim Quinn

Air Power

Preserving a mammoth organ from a lost golden age-and the elaborate electropneumatics that make it work
Stephen Budiansky

Blood On Demand

TRANSFUSIONS USED TO BE VERY PAINFUL AND VERY DANGEROUS. A FEW DEDICATED DOCTORS KNEW THERE HAD TO BE A BETTER WAY.

Roxanne Nelson

Gas Stations In The Sky

SINCE THE 1920S, EVER-IMPROVING IN-FLIGHT REFUELING HAS LET PLANES STAY IN THE AIR FOR HOURS, DAYS, OR WEEKS AT A TIME
Mike May

High Wire

MEN WHO HAVE SPENT THElR LIVES DOING DANGEROUS JOBS REMEMBER THAT THE WORST TOOK PLACE ON THE CLIFFS OF THE GRAND CANYON, WHEN THEY WORKED BUILDING A CONVEYOR FOR PREHISTORIC BAT DUNG
Rockey Spicer

Pinball

IT TOOK MOST OF A CENTURY TO EVOLVE, AND ITS BEST DAYS MAY BE PAST
Linda Barth

The Railroad That Went To Sea

HENRY FLAGLER DEFIED THE ELEMENTS TO LAY TRACKS ACROSS THE OCEAN TO KEY WEST— BUT ULTIMATELY THE ELEMENTS WON

T. A. Heppenheimer
Invention & Technology Spring 2004

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