Word: workbenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...
...shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate and a Harvard friend completed the car and drove it-the second ever...