''Invention & Technology Magazine'' (formerly known as ''American Heritage of Invention & Technology'') is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the

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. It was launched with sponsorship from

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in the summer of 1985 as a spinoff of '' American Heritage'' magazine. Later, the magazine had a partnership with the

National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a US patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also operate ...

. “Our subject matter is actually nothing less than the making of the world we live in, and the stories of all the extraordinary people who made it,” wrote Frederick Allen, the Founding Editor, in 1985. He noted that the field of the history of technology is relatively new. "Up to now there has been no general magazine of wide circulation reporting on it. A gap exists between the findings of the scholars and the educated public," he wrote. There were three issues of the magazine a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along with ''American Heritage'' itself). Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed title ''American Heritage's Invention & Technology''. Publication was suspended after the Winter 2011 issue (volume 25, number 4). ''Invention & Technology'' relaunched in 2020 with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and

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and donations from 700 subscribers. Its first new issue included profiles of 50 women inventors with articles by Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of

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, Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts, and C. Daniel Mote Jr., former president of the

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. Contributors have included such writers about the history of technology as W. Bernard Carlson, Tom D. Crouch, Julie M. Fenster, Robert Friedel, William S. Hammack,

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, T. A. Heppenheimer, Thomas P. Hughes,

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, Arthur Molella, Henry Petroski, Robert C. Post, and Mark Wolverton.

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