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The following is an edited transcript of the plenary lecture presented by John P. McTague at the 1996 MRS Fall Meeting on December 2,1996 in Boston.
Long before 1993, the journey from New York City to San Francisco, across the continent, and from New York City to London, across the sea, will be made between the sunrise and sunset of a summer day. The railway and the steamship will be as obsolete as the stagecoach. And it will be as common for the citizen to call for his dirigible balloon as it now is for his buggy or his boots. Electricity will be the motive power, and aluminium or some lighter metal will be the material of the aerial cars, which will navigate the abyss of the sky.
John J. Ingalls
“Remarkable Changes in Everyday Life”(1893)
