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Summer 1999


Volume 15, Issue 1

FEATURES

WALTER CHRYSLER FELL IN LOVE WITH A CAR IN 1907 AND THEN LEFT RAILROADING TO CREATE THE THIRD-BIGGEST AUTO COMPANY AND THE BEST-ENGINEERED VEHICLES OF HIS DAY

In modern dairy farming, even the basic act of conception has become an industrial process. Getting it that way wasn’t simple.

AT THE START OF THE 1960s, THE SOVIET UNION LED THE WORLD IN ROCKETRY. BY THE END OF THE DECADE, AS AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS WALKED ON THE MOON, THE SOVIETS COULD BARELY KEEP THEIR ROCKETS FROM EXPLODING. WHAT HAPPENED?

How a Confederate officer invented the land mine and changed the face of warfare

Rock drilling is one of the world’s most ancient technologies—and a pre requisite for nearly all the others

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