Walter Brattain had the hands. Give him the direction and he could build anything. He was a solid physicist who had a good understanding of theory, but his strength was in physically constructing ...

Charles Stewart is co-editor of Imagining the Twentieth Century and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He currently studies 20th ...

In the decades before the country’s best minds began migrating west to California’s Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in enormous brick-and-glass buildings ...