In 1962, The New Yorker published Rachel Carson’s articles on the side effects of pesticides. Today the magazine publishes science journalism by Elizabeth Kolbert, who reports on climate change.
Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.
In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold.
