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Sixty miles southeast of Guam, the Navy's bathyscaphe Trieste (TIME, Sept. 1, 1958) settled slowly below the rolling .sea. In the small, thick-shelled crew compartment were Lieut. Donald Walsh and Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard (son of the bathyscaphe's inventor, Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft. (more than 4½ miles) below the surface, the Trieste touched the greatest depth ever reached...
Revolt of the Machines. Greatest challenge to man's ascendancy is not other living creatures but mechanical monsters of his own creation, argued Mathematician Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. Dr. Wiener, inventor of the word "cybernetics" (science of control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...
...Breed of Reader. Established in 1845 by Rufus Porter, a Yankee tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades, the magazine grew up as a kind of inventor's catalogue, faithfully reporting Morse's telegraph, Catling's gun, and other newfangled devices of the time. Its Manhattan office was a hangout for inventors; among them Thomas A. Edison, who showed up one day in 1877 with a package under one arm that introduced itself: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking...
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An effective portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor, partly by being one of its best promoters...
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A well-done portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan, who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor partly by being one of its best promoters...