Legacy
Colburn wrote prolifically and well; all his contemporaries attest to the way he added insight and opinion to straight reporting. His books and articles were the stuff of technology transfer in his day. He was certainly the first engineering journalist, as we might understand the term today.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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