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  High Stakes High School Science: Competitions Net Six-Figure Prizes

  Top high school researchers walk away with $100,000 prizes in the 10th annual Siemens Competition

  By Laura Vanderkam   | Dec 8, 2008  

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  100 Years Ago: Engineering a City--New York City's Bridges

  Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Nov 21, 2008  | 1

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  150 Years Ago: Using Light as a Cure

  Stories from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Nov 7, 2008  | 1

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  100 Years Ago: Egyptian Fossil Discovery

  Stories from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Sep 19, 2008  

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  50 Years Ago: Greatest Scientific Discovery is Science Itself

  Stories from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Sep 5, 2008  | 3

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  150 Years Ago: The First Transatlantic Telegraph

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Aug 8, 2008  

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  August 1908: The Wright Brother's Aeroplane in France and the U.S.

  This article was originally printed in the August 1908 Issue of Scientific American.

  Jul 21, 2008  

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  100 Years Ago in Scientific American: Curtiss "June Bug" wins Flight Contest

  Security Bug -- June Bug -- Bug Trap

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Jun 20, 2008  

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  July 1908: The Winning Flight of the "June Bug" Aeroplane for The Scientific American Trophy

  Jun 16, 2008  

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  50 Years Ago in Scientific American: When Baby Boomers Weren't Worried about Wiretaps

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | May 30, 2008  | 1

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  June 1908: The Wright Perspective on Flight

  After experiments with their Flyer in May 1908, the Wright brothers wrote the following report for the Scientific American

  May 19, 2008  | 2

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  100 Years Ago: Whitest Printing Plant in the World

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | May 2, 2008  

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  100 Years Ago in Scientific American: The Wright Brothers' First Flight

  An article from the May 1908 issue of Scientific American

  Apr 21, 2008  

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  Hoyle on Matter -- Our Readers? -- Killing Beauty

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Mar 26, 2008  

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Atomic Economics -- Hammondsport Flight Test -- Exactitude and Fashion

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Feb 18, 2008  | 3

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  Supplement: The First Successful Trial Of A New American Aeroplane.

  An article from the March 1908 issue of Scientific American

  Feb 18, 2008  

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  Gone Fission -- Wilbur on Flying -- Cold Steam

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Jan 17, 2008  

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  Supplement: Flying as a Sport

  An article by Wilbur Wright in Scientific American, February 29, 1908

  Jan 16, 2008  | 2

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  Uncertainty -- Limited Flight -- Forbidden Territory

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American

  Dec 16, 2007  

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  Supplement: M. Henri Farman's 1908 Prize-Winning Flight

  The Farman Aeroplane wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize.
  A Report in Scientific American, January 25, 1908

  Dec 16, 2007  

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  Space Race--Cost of Coal--An Uncivil Club

  Articles from past issues of Scientific American
  * Supplement: An Uncivil Club

  Nov 19, 2007  

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  First Satellite -- Canine Treachery -- Unlucky Ship

  Oct 14, 2007  

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  "White Flight"--Hypnotic Snakes--Treasure Ship

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Sep 12, 2007  

• Scientific American Magazine

  Crick's Progress--Flight Incentive--Flame Tamer

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Aug 19, 2007  

• Scientific American Magazine

  Accident Epidemiology -- An Unsinkable Ship -- Truth Serum

  By Daniel C. Schlenoff   | Jul 15, 2007  

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