About a third of the way through Marine Sciences an adjunct, George Fosdic showed up with a model building project.
George is an unrecovered boy soprano, A. I. L. spec. writer, piano salesman and would be inventor. What he wanted was a "pretty" model of a wind turbine he had worked out. I built him a brass model that pleased him for the price he offered. Then came the problem of measuring its' performance as a prime mover. In various forms this went on for twelve years. I did a great deal of free work and learned much about power measurement. I built a series of calibrated brakes, cradles and turbines. Learned something of rigging and tower design. I learned about obsession.
It was not a workable idea.
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