The Reason This Web Site Exists
This web site is disorganized. Sorry about that. It began in the very earliest days when the World Wide Web first
permitted public access (outside of universities). I used Windows Notepad to code up some of this new-fangled HTML text-tagging code
and used whatever content I had on-hand. It was just an experiment, for kicks. But the content was accessed and links from other
web sites appeared. So I became reluctant to completely scrap it all and reorgainze it properly. This non-traditional home page is likely
my last reorginization attempt; and for most purposes, I doubt if anyone needs to come here. The search engine web crawlers index my content
and from the stats, I see that my content pages are being accessed directly from search engines.
By training I'm a historian of science, and in grad school I presumed I'd end up as a history instructor at a community college somewhere. But life takes strange turns and instead of being a teacher, I spent 39 years pretending to be a systems engineer in the software industry. I somehow pulled it off. I'm now retired and able to research and write about the history of science & technology, principally radio and electronics technology.
One result of my retirement free time is my book, The Wright Engineers: Inventing the Airplane. This is the engineering story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers. It is aimed at middle grade readers and above, students who have an interest in aviation or engineering. Indeed, the book has nearly equal emphasis on aeronatical science and engineering. More details may be found on the book's website.