Evan E. Filby, Ph.D., is currently a freelance writer, with an interest in the history of science, particularly the impact of technical innovation on society. Filby has served as a research scientist, project leader and section manager at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, Idaho; a part of the system owned by the Federal government and overseen by the U. S. Department of Energy. He has had years of experience teaching and presenting science to non-technical audiences having been an Affiliate Faculty at University of Idaho, Idaho Falls branch. In that position he served as faculty advisor and also designed and taught the course "Technology and Human Values," a class that explored the impact (positive and negative) of technology on our society. He has published several articles on innovative science and engineering accomplishments in technical journals, as well as over two hundred short biographies on his popular history blog, the South Fork Companion.