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At a time when data moved on horses and ships, Samuel Morse inaugurated the information age in 1835 by translating messages into electric signals and telegraphing them at nearly the speed of light. With 20/20 hindsight, it is tempting to view today's networked and digitized world as the inevitable...
Self-effacing and at 64 still somewhat shy, MacCready would cringe at any comparison with the original Renaissance man. Yet he has created what Da Vinci dreamed of and designed, but literally never got off the ground -- flying machines propelled solely by human muscle power. These and other unique MacCready...
MacCready had already been named Engineer of the Century by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers when, in 1981, he unveiled another of his pioneering vehicles. Carrying a single pilot, the Solar Challenger took off, climbed to 11,000 ft. and flew 163 miles from France to an R.A.F. base...
The list of MacCready's brainchildren goes on and on: the General Motors Sunraycer, a solar-powered electric car that in 1987 won a 1,867-mile race across Australia against 23 competitors, averaging 41 m.p.h. and beating the second-place finisher by two days; the Pointer, a 9 lb...
Though finding accessible housing remains a problem for Fond du Lac's disabled, the city has made progress in opening some public accommodations. Movie theaters have removed rows of seats to make room for people in wheelchairs. Several service stations offer to pump gas at no extra charge for disabled...