"Franklin made a strong kite from a silk handkerchief and a cedar cross carrying a sharp, pointed wire. To the kite's string he attached a metal key carefully wrapped in dry ...
The Next Fifty Years
'To undertake long range predictions is Promethean: The fate of predictions, if not of the predictor, is like to be unhappy. Still, the challenge is hard to ignore.'
The Next Fift...
Constant Touch
"...in 1910, in a spirit of tinkering, Ericsson built a telephone into his wife Hilda's car, the vehicle connected by wires and poles to the overhead telephone lines that had...
