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Inventor

4. Inventor

    --Centerless center drill plan              

             There were two inventions that he actually got to a copyright attorney.   Dad was an incredibly brilliant, creative person who invented  things to solve problems he saw that needed solving , regardless of whether anyone else perceived a problem. In the 1940’s while he was at Hanford and Pearl he actually started the patent process with a specialist attorney in SLC, Mallinkrodt. I have the file on his “monovalve” and on his “center drilling device”.  He didn’t have the money to complete the patent process, a fact that bugged him the rest of his life.  He thought he had been ripped off, cheated. I don’t know. I recently saw one his letter to mom from Hanford in which he told her to send $200 Mallinkrodt for the center drill, and another $25 for the monovalve.  Those were

--Monovalve plan

enormous sums in those days, particularly in the context of their poorness.
     Thanks to Nate for scanning all of the invention documents, a few of which are used in this gallery:

Gallery of Inventions

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