Charles W. Ebeling | Invention & Technology Magazine

Charles W. Ebeling, a retired industrial engineer, is the author of An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, Integrated Packaging Systems for Transportation and Distribution, and other books on engineering.

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Winter 2009

Evolution of a Box

The invention of the intermodal shipping container revolutionized the international transportation of goods

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Spring 2007

Revolutionary Restaurants

How they perfected going in circles while you eat Read >>

Summer 2006

The Blimp Barns

They were the most colossal examples of America’s can-do wartime technology—and a few of them are still around

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Summer 2004

“The Hell I Can’t”

THE BOATS THAT MADE THE LANDINGS POSSIBLE, AND THE MAN BEHIND THEM

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Fall 2002

The First Fruit Of A New Age

IT WAS AN EXPERIMENT IN AN UNTESTED MATERIAL, AND IT REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN FARMING Read >>

Spring 2001

Big Wheels

In the 1950s, the Army tried supplying Arctic bases with a truck-train that looked like something out of science fiction Read >>

Fall 2001

“You Call That Damn Thing a Boat?”

MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO, SHIPS THAT LOOKED LIKE NUCLEAR SUBMARINES WERE EVERYWHERE ON THE GREAT LAKES

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