Before his “girls on rocks” became a cliche, Mayfield Parrish charmed America’s children.
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Small, cheap, ubiquitous, the transistor — invented 75 years ago — birthed the Modern World.
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From burning river to free flowing waters, the Cuyahoga River has come back. “It’s a miracle.”
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Fast cameras caught split second action but “Doc” Edgerton’s strobe captured magic.
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Human-powered flight was just a dream until the Gossamer Albatross pedaled into the sky.
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The moon shots were history. Americans were jaded about space. And then a little spacecraft just kept going and going and going. . .
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Obsession led Albert Michelson to chase the speed of light, but he had another reason. Why study light? “Because it’s so much fun!”
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The Mt. Palomar Observatory had no women's restroom. Until Vera Rubin taped a paper skirt on the door. Meet the woman who changed our view of the cosmos and of women in science.
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One man. A vision. Thirty years working in his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."
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