Oliver E. Allen is a freelance writer living in New York City.
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Winter 1997
IT WORKED ON forced air, and when nobody wanted it, Alfred Beach built it anyway, without telling anyone Read >>
Winter 1996
THE SHIP THAT HELPED SAVE THE Union and changed naval warfare was but one of many remarkable accomplishments of the fearsome, temperamental John Ericsson
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Winter 1995
How a company whose original product proved worthless learned to live by its wits and came up with the Scotch tape we all depend on
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Fall 1987
For three generations the Stevenses of New Jersey applied their inventive genius to steamboats, railroads, naval warfare, and a host of other technologies
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