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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5
A CENTURY OF INNOVATION TRANSFORMED OUR LIVES
Over the past hundred years, the world has changed more than in
any previous century. Humans have flown and ventured into space. We
have communicated across the seas, traveled from continent to
continent, and built complex machines that work miracles by
calculating zeros and ones.
Bob Somerville, a freelance writer and editor based in Forest
Heights, Maryland, will speak on "A Century of Innovation that
Transformed Our Lives” at a colloquium at 2 p.m., Tuesday,
Oct. 5.
Media Briefing: A media briefing will be held at 1:15 p.m. at
the H.J.E. Reid Conference Center, 14 Langley Blvd., NASA Langley
Research Center. Members of the media who wish to attend should
contact Kim Land at (757) 864-9885 or 344-8611 (mobile) to arrange
for credentials.
Somerville, co-author of A Century of Innovation: Twenty
Engineering Achievements That Transformed Our Lives, will review
the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the twentieth century,
from electricity and health care technologies, to household
appliances, the Internet, lasers, fiber optics and more.
A graduate of Princeton University, he attended Yale and the
University of Virginia for his post-graduate degrees. He worked for
20 years at Time-Life, beginning as a proofreader and eventually
becoming executive editor of the trade books division.
Somerville has written and edited books on a wide variety of
subjects, including archaeology, astronomy, computers, flight,
human physiology and psychology, American and world history, and
health. Currently, he is editing three diverse works: a history of
a Trappist monastery, a how-to book on film editing and a legal
thriller.
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