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May-June 2002

Volume 90, Number 3
Page 217

DOI: 10.1511/2002.9.217

No activity or occupation is without its unique technological problems and solutions. Yet the problems often go unnoticed by the uninitiated; long-standing solutions can be underappreciated even by those steeped in the technology; and to virtually all of those practitioners who daily rely on clever tricks and devices to get even the simplest of jobs done, the inventors and engineers of quiet revolutions usually remain anonymous and unheralded.

Tony Pitts

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