Backyard Trinity

The five-note, other-worldly riff of film composer John Williams' Close Encounters tune would not yet reverberate for another decade– but the "Exeter Incident" had already captured the public's imagination with recent headlines.

Beginning of Wisdom

A wrist-worn clock is a remarkable invention and a marvel of manufacturing. The first common availability of wristwatches appeared about a century ago, when we still moved about the earth under steam power, and we performed calculations on paper using nothing more than a pencil and the mind.