<p>The celebrated novelist and historian John Dos Passos wrote a prose poem about the visit that Albert Einstein paid to Charles Steinmetz, the "The Wizard of Schenectady."</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> So Richmond proudly described its electric trolleys, the first truly successful system in the world</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> With a wave of his plastic wand Carl Fisher transformed a tangle of mangrove swamps into a peculiarly American resort</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How the Philadelphia waterworks became a potent symbol of our lost belief that nature and technology could live together in harmony</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The single greatest medical discovery of the last century began as a parlor game, and brought tragedy to nearly everyone who had a hand in it</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> With Epcot, Walt Disney turned his formidable skills to building a city where man and technology could live together in perfect harmony. The result is part prophecy, part world’s fair. Here, America’s leading authority on technological history examines this urban experiment in the light of past world’s fairs, and tells why it fails where they succeeded—and why that matters.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> THE BIRTH OF THE RAND CORPORATION <span class="typestyle"> During World War II, America discovered that scientists were needed to win it—and to win any future war. That’s why RAND came into being, the first think tank and the model for all the rest.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “A wound in the heart is mortal,” Hippocrates said two thousand years ago. Until very recently he was right.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">On November 18, 1883, the nation finally settled on the method of synchronizing all clocks that we call standard time. Why did it take so long to figure that one out?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> … is more comfortable and safer than World War II’s “steel pot. ” The problem is that it looks just like the One Hitlers troops wore.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> America has won more Nobel Prizes in medicine than any other nation: it’s easy when you have the money, the technology, and people from every other nation</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">American medicine in a crucial era was at once surprisingly similar and shockingly different from what we know today. You could get aspirin at the drugstore, and anesthesia during surgery. But you could also buy opium over the counter, and the surgery would be more likely to be performed in your kitchen than in a hospital.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A lot of people still remember how great it was to ride in the old Pullmans, how curiously regal to have a simple, well-cooked meal in the dining car. Those memories are perfectly accurate, and that lost pleasure holds a lesson for us that extends beyond mere nostalgia.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A leader in the emerging field of technological history speaks about the inventors who made our modern world, and tells why it is vital for us to know not only what they did, but how they thought.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Though it appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the 1950s.</span></p>
