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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Interesting, was not aware of that.
Interesting (your grandfatheR), I am sure he has/had some great stories.
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He did, but not about the systems he designed and helped implement. His name was Ralph Jacobs. He was injured in his late teens by being tossed off a horse on his dad's Montana ranch, and was confined to a wheel chair thereafter. Nonetheless, he trained as an engineer and graduated from the Colorado School of Mines, and subsequently practiced his trade at the shipyard. My ex had family from Montana, and she compared notes with Ralph one day. She mentioned her grandfather's name only to have Ralph exclaim "I knew George! He was a horse thief!" Kind of put a pall over the conversation. To this day she claims he was pulling her leg - I'm not so sure!
