Book description
Dr. Earl T. Hayes was pivotal to the research and development of two "miracle metals" used in the world's first nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, during his time at the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Albany, Oregon, during the late 1940s and early 1950s. After his successes in Albany, Dr.…
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This was a feel-good read the whole way through. The book starts out as his mother, in labor, gets put into a minecart and wheeled ten miles to the track to the front door of the hospital to give birth, to tough times growing up during the Depression, all the way to working in the Pentagon (and forgetting to close his safe, and the paperwork that incurred...) If you need a pick-me-up autobiography that makes you appreciate the simple things, this is the book for you!
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