Be my ball machine.

[grinninfoole]

In about ten days I will take my comps, which involve me getting one or two questions on the history of American science and then writing an extemporaneous, closed book essay for an hour answering one. Want to help me prepare? Then ask me a question about the history of American science. Reply to this post with a question (and please give a heading like 'question' or some such), and tell me what story you would like me to tell you about science, the people who did it, and how they went about it here in the Americas.

I'm not a technologist, so I can't give you a lot of technical details unless you happen to ask about the right thing, and the possible topics are so numerous that I might not have a lot to say, but I just need folks to pop me a lot of questions that I have to answer on the fly. (My particular interests are secrecy and popularization, if that helps.)