<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>In the early 1950s, top-secret efforts led to the first submarine trips to the North Pole by USS <em>Nautilus</em> and USS <em>Skate</em> in 1957 – dramatic successes that rivaled the Soviet Union's Sputnik that year – and shifted the balance of strategic power.</p>
