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''Invention & Technology Magazine'' (formerly known as ''American Heritage of Invention & Technology'') is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the 
“Our subject matter is actually nothing less than the making of the world we live in, and the stories of all the extraordinary people who made it,” wrote Frederick Allen, the Founding Editor, in 1985. He noted that the field of the history of technology is relatively new. "Up to now there has been no general magazine of wide circulation reporting on it. A gap exists between the findings of the scholars and the educated public," he wrote.
There were three issues of the magazine a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along with ''American Heritage'' itself). Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed title ''American Heritage's Invention & Technology''. Publication was suspended after the Winter 2011 issue (volume 25, number 4).
''Invention & Technology'' relaunched in 2020 with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and
Official website
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history of technology
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. It was launched with sponsorship from General Motors
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in the summer of 1985 as a spinoff of ''American Heritage American Heritage may refer to:
* ''American Heritage'' (magazine)
* ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''
* American Heritage Rivers
* American Heritage School (disambiguation)
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'' magazine. Later, the magazine had a partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
.
“Our subject matter is actually nothing less than the making of the world we live in, and the stories of all the extraordinary people who made it,” wrote Frederick Allen, the Founding Editor, in 1985. He noted that the field of the history of technology is relatively new. "Up to now there has been no general magazine of wide circulation reporting on it. A gap exists between the findings of the scholars and the educated public," he wrote.
There were three issues of the magazine a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along with ''American Heritage'' itself). Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed title ''American Heritage's Invention & Technology''. Publication was suspended after the Winter 2011 issue (volume 25, number 4).
''Invention & Technology'' relaunched in 2020 with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Charles Koch Institute
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and donations from 700 subscribers. Its first new issue included profiles of 50 women inventors with articles by Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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, Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts, and C. Daniel Mote Jr., former president of the University of Maryland
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.
Contributors have included such writers about the history of technology as W. Bernard Carlson, Tom D. Crouch
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at the National Air and Space Museum ...
, Julie M. Fenster, Robert Friedel, at the National Air and Space Museum ...
William S. Hammack
William (Bill) S. Hammack (born 1961) is an American Chemical engineering, chemical engineer, and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Hammack earned his BS in Chemical Engineeri ...
, Stephen Hawking, T. A. Heppenheimer, Thomas P. Hughes
Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American historian of technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.
He received his Ph.D. ...
, Sebastian Junger
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, Arthur Molella, Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning ...
, Robert C. Post, and Mark Wolverton.
See also
*''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (''AHD'') is an American English, American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. ...
''
* ''American Heritage'' (magazine)
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External links
Official website
History magazines published in the United States Quarterly magazines published in the United States Science and technology magazines published in the United States Triannual magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1985 Magazines published in Maryland 1985 establishments in the United States {{hist-mag-stub