I got a book management application for Christmas from our daughter. Book Buddy.
Going through the ~1,000 books in the house (I'm the son of a University Librarian) I came across this book.
I got this book from my High School physics teacher in the mid 60's. She got us jobs as interns, doing office work on Project Nerva. I came across a DVD of that project at a Space Comm conference in Colorado Springs a few years ago, where the people in the NASA booth, where not even born when I was copying drawing and documents on machines that emitted ammonia in a closed room, long before Xerox was in business.
She gave several of us this book. Copies were from her husband who worked at the Nevada Test Site. I went to Western HS in Las Vegas, where neighbors ranged from physicists to engineers (my father), to fireman, to pit bosses, to doctors.
Our group was told to go read this book, go into the backroom and also read some assigned college texts, start a Rocket Club, and leave the other students alone.
When our children found my picture in the Year Book in the Rocket Club, Math Club, and Chemistry Club, their comment was gee Dad you really were a geek.
