Creative Genius
My grandfather died about 8 years ago now, he was in his 80's when he passed. He was the son of German immigrants and spent his life working for Hughes Aircraft in California. It was the time when Howard Hughes was in his heyday. Ideas were flowing like lightning bolting from the sky. Invention fed modernization and modernization fed more invention. Government led the way. It established the context, the mission and brilliant minds lined up to provide the answers. When you are a child you never really appreciate the significance of a life, of a talent, until you grow older and place it within the context of your own life. A micrometer is a tool that allows a human being to nearly create perfection. It measures the minute and until computers and lasers it was the guide post for human ingenuity when seeking to create the exact. My grandfather had countless micrometers and his abilities as a machinist created parts the flew with the Apollo missions to the moon. They answ