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9-11-2001

The people who stand ready to trade their lives for ours are part of a tradition that goes back 400 years

How our technologies are still our allies

In the early 1880s, a Maine-born inventor named Hiram Maxim, who had tried and failed to become a leading figure in the young electrical industry, met a fellow American in Vienna who told him, “Hang your chemistry and electricity!

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