About the Author

A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian of science and technology who teaches at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. He is also the author of Men Among the Mammoths (1993), Science in Popular Culture (2002), as well as numerous articles on the histories of geology, archaeology, and aerospace technology. He took his first airplane ride at the age of five, and has been looking up ever since.

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"Adds to the literature on the social and cultural meaning of technology in the twentieth century . . . fits the external world very well and provides a good sampling of reasons how and why Americans moved away from the idea of progress."--William Trimble, Auburn University

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