34 illustrations referencing Malachi
In 1856, Henry Bessemer stood before a crowd of skeptical ironworkers in Sheffield, England, and demonstrated something they had never seen. He poured molten pig...
In 1935, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau stood in his Peoria, Illinois factory surrounded by earthmoving machines of his own design. He had nearly lost everything during...
In the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle, the town of Björkliden endures something called the polar night. From late November through mid-January,...
In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked sponge against Michelangelo's ceiling. Beneath five centuries of...
Marcus and Elena Rivera had been married three years when Marcus lost his warehouse job in Memphis. They were already stretched thin — rent, a...
In 1696, Isaac Newton — the man who had unlocked the laws of gravity — accepted an unexpected appointment as Warden of England's Royal Mint....
In the spring of 1988, outside Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Dale Hendricks stood at the edge of his wheat field and watched the dust lift off cracked...
In March of 1987, dairy farmer Ellen Holbrook of Addison County, Vermont, opened the barn doors after five months of bitter winter. Her twelve Holstein...
In 1987, a drought pressed hard against the farmland outside Macon, Georgia. Wells ran low. Fields cracked. Most farmers held tight to whatever water they...
On a dusty farmstead outside Abilene, Kansas, there stands an old cast-iron hand pump — the kind with a long lever and a rusted spout....
When sixteen-year-old William Colgate left his family's farm in Maryland and set out for New York City in 1801, he had almost nothing. Along the...
In 2004, Dr. Sylvia Martínez worked the overnight shift at the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her patients — soldiers...
In Philadelphia's historic Jewelers' Row, master silversmith David Huang sits hunched over a crucible no bigger than a coffee mug. Inside, a lump of tarnished...
In downtown Taxco, Mexico, a third-generation silversmith named Eduardo Pineda sits before a crucible of molten metal, his eyes fixed on the glowing surface. The...
In 1856, Henry Bessemer stood before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Cheltenham, England, and announced something that sounded impossible. He could...
Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...
Every spring, forestry crews in South Carolina's Francis Marion National Forest do something that looks like destruction. They walk through stands of longleaf pine with...
In 1947, a cotton farmer named Earl Thibodeaux stood at the edge of his sixty acres outside Opelousas, Louisiana, staring at frozen ground. His wife,...
In rural Appalachia, old homesteads still have cast-iron hand pumps standing over deep wells. Anyone who has used one knows the frustrating secret: you cannot...
In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had...
In 1946, chemist Vincent Schaefer stood inside a General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, New York, and dropped a handful of dry ice pellets into a...
In 2012, Marcus and Denise Holloway ran a small produce farm outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. When a brutal drought scorched the region, most neighboring farms held...
In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked compress against a darkened section of Michelangelo's ceiling....
Margaret Chen had farmed forty acres outside Salinas, California, for nineteen years. She knew the math of survival — every bushel counted, every dollar stretched...