National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Percy Spencer was an American physicist and inventor. Spencer was born in 1894 in Howland, Maine. He dropped out of grammar school at age 12 to work as a spindle boy in a weaving mill, but in his early years he taught himself about electricity, even setting up a new electrical system at a local […]
Augustus “Gus” Kinzel was an American metallurgical engineer. He graduated at age eighteen from Columbia College, and earned a PhD in metallurgical engineering from the University of Nancy in France.