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'�A Harvest of Inventions�', The New Yorker

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-7-2; Design and Invention; Engineering; invention; John Hammond; Jr; radio; remote control wireless; Seldes, Gilbert; toys

'A living doll', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1964; 1964-1-1; Design and Invention; Dolls; Engineering; Fathers and daughters; Gifts; Humor; New York; New York (State); Wallace, Robert

'A Spray Gun for the Varnish,', The New Yorker

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-2-18; Design and Invention; Engineering; mass-production; varnish; violin-making; Wechsberg, Joseph

'A Tentative Idea for a Lamp', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-3-18; Biography; Design and Invention; Engineering; Henry Ford; invention; Radford, Tim; Thomas Edison

'America's Most Popular Gadget', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1954; 1954-7-9; Design and Invention; drills; effects of war; Engineering; Gadgets; Power tools; Stevens, Leonard A.

'Anti-Japanese Sandman', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-3-6; Anti-aircraft; Collyns, Bill; Design and Invention; Engineering; Military; worker invention

'Armored in Glass', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-10-6; Body armour; De Vore, Robert; Design and Invention; Engineering; Glass; Military; Nylon

'Best Inventions of 2007', TIME magazine

Tags: 2007-11-12; Design and Invention

'Come, Let Me Clutch Thee.', The New Yorker

Tags: 1950s; 1954; 1954-5-29; Design and Invention; Engineering; Handles; invention; Kahn, E. J.; Thomas Lamb

'Corporations: The Master Technicians', TIME magazine

Tags: 1964-11-27; Design and Invention

'Design: The Man in the Trap', TIME magazine

Tags: 1963-5-3; Design and Invention

'Dream Weapon', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-5-12; bomb; comparison to science fiction; Design and Invention; Engineering; innovation; Military; New weapons; Ratcliff, J.D.

'Electrifying Football', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-11-9; Broadcasting; Design and Invention; Electronic brains; Engineering; football; Future; invention; Partch, Virgil; Sport

'G.I. Ideas', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-9-8; Design and Invention; Engineering; Soldier inventors; technical detectives; Van Devander, Clare F.

'Gadget-Maker', The New Yorker

Tags: 1930; 1930-4-19; 1930s; Design and Invention; Elmer Sperry; Engineering; inventor; Pringle, Henry F.

'Gadgets: A Tape for the Road', TIME magazine

Tags: 1963-8-9; Design and Invention

'Gadgets: Don't Drip: Dry', TIME magazine

Tags: 1961-6-30; Design and Invention

'German Weapons Are Obsolete', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1941; 1941-12-27; Design and Invention; Engineering; invention; McCormick, Robert; Military; propaganda

'I-GLOBAL REACH', The New Yorker

Tags: 1970s; 1974; 1974-12-2; Barnet, Richard J.; Design and Invention; Engineering; foreign investment; Muller, Ronald; multinationalism; technological development

'In the Outlaw Area', The New Yorker

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-1-8; Anthropology; Buckminster Fuller; Design and Invention; design science; Engineering; geodesic-dome; Maori; Plywood; Tomkins, Calvin; Travel

'Industrial Classicist.', The New Yorker

Tags: 1930s; 1934; 1934-12-15; classicism; Design and Invention; Engineering; gas compressors; industrial design; natural gas; Seldes, Gilbert; Walter Teague

'Invention Factory', The New Yorker

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-11-28; Bell Telephone Laboratories; Design and Invention; Engineering; invention; Research; Ross, Malcolm

'Joe McSween's Atomic Machine', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-12-14; Atomic Machine; Design and Invention; Engineering; Gehman, Richard B.

'Long Live Aporia!', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-7-24; Design and Invention; Engineering; Foster, Hal; Player piano; William Gaddis

'Looking For Trouble', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-12-6; Apple; David Levy; Design; Design and Invention; Engineering; invention; MacFarquhar, Larissa; PowerBook trackpad

'Momentous Conjuncture', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-3-18; Adrian Fort; Best, Geoffrey; Design and Invention; Engineering; Frederick Lindemann; Military Invention; Winston Churchill

'Most Amazing Inventions of 2004', TIME magazine

Tags: 2004-11-29; Design and Invention

'New Products', TIME magazine

Tags: 1960-9-19; Design and Invention

'Prophets and pattern-followers', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-7-1; Creative ability in business; Creative ability in technology; Design and Invention; Engineering; Rubber industry and trade; Strategic planning; Technological innovations; Telephone supplies industry; United States; Updegraff, Robert R. (Robert Rawls)

'Rough Trade', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-6-3; Design and Invention; Engineering; History of Science; Intellectual Property; invention; Patents; Robert Hooke; Shapin, Steven; Stephen Inwood