When Union Army engineer Robert K. Sneden landed at Old Point Comfort in early 1862, he was just another face among more than 100,000 in the largest amphibious operation the country had ever seen. But ...
In Scarsdale, New York, in the 1940s, Ivan Sutherland’s mother recycled his father’s civil engineering drawings by covering her sons’ schoolbooks with them. Sutherland, who says he learned to read ...