Technology Review: February/March 1997
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Unlocking the Legacies of the Edison Archives
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150 years after Thomas Edison´s birth, his record of 1,093 diverse patents is still unrivaled. A massive effort to catalogue his voluminous collection of papers and artifacts is yielding clues to account for his phenomenal success.
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- Time to Push Weapons Treaties—Not Block Them
- Agreements banning chemical weapons and halting nuclear testing await Senate ratification. President Clinton and the Republican Senate need to rise above politics to pass these much-needed measures.
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Features
- It’s a Small, Small, Small, Small World
- With the tools of the nanotechnology trade becoming better defined, the ability to create new materials and devices by placing every atom and molecule in the right place is moving closer to reality.
- The National Ignition Facility: Buyer Beware
- The federal government´s planned laser fusion center is being sold as an essential tool for preserving the aging U.S. nuclear arsenal. But that´s not what the taxpayer is getting.
- Paint the Town White—and Green
- Urban heat islands are not inevitable, but the product of dark roofs, black pavement, and loss of vegetation. A "cool communities" approach would lower air-conditioning use and make the air healthier.
- Scientist For a Day
- Elbow Grease and Discovery in the New Science Museum
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Columns
- It’s Morning in American Industry
- As business and government have responded to change and adopted new technology, declining competitiveness among U.S. companies has become a dim memory.
- Electronically Implanted "Values"
- Software that renders the Internet child-safe can also screen out a wide range of legitimate information. Whose agenda is being served?
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