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...better performance than that," he told me, and set out methodically to build the world's best steamer. He and I went to California Institute of Technology and conferred with Dr. Robert Millikan,* its president and the 1923 Nobel Prizewinner in physics. Hughes told Dr. Millikan that he wanted to employ two of his brightest engineering graduates, men with creative imagination. Dr. Millikan recommended two young men, named Burns and Lewis...
...went out one day to the California Institute of Technology and had a talk with Doctor Richard Millikan-he was President of the University and a Nobel Prizewinner -and I told him I ... wanted two real bright boys to come and work for me and to develop the Hughes Steamer ... He found two young kids, Lewis and Burns, and I told them what I wanted ... a steamer that would get up a head of steam instantly, or as close as possible, and one that would give me four to five hundred miles without having to refill the boiler...
...Phelan errs in this account, since Millikan was never president of Caltech. He was chairman of the executive council. Interestingly, Irving repeats this same error in his version of the anecdote, and adds one of his own, mistakenly using Richard as Millikan's first name...
...Millikan, director of the Center, called the demonstration "by and large a useful exercise and a good interchange." He added, "It was a little too disruptive, but it was one way to start a discussion of some of these issues...
...Millikan said he hopes hat yesterday's demonstration "can be followed up by more serious and leisurely seminar-type discussions on specific Center projects. It's hard to have a decent discussion in a room jammed with people...