Eye-Saver Yellow

1968 Catalog

As a side note, the ISRM Curator worked on Phantom F4-J's while assigned to VF-161 Fighter Squadron aboard the USS Coral Seal in Vietnam from 1967-1969. A snappy salute to Karl!

Cont'd where he planned and performed critical experiments in the CANEL Nuclear Physics Laboratory. Charlie secured a position in 1964 at the Oak Ridge Nationall Laboratory Y-12 Plant, where he developed computational and experimental techniques for analyzing the nuclear criticality safety of fissionable materials. He took advantage of the Educational Assistance Program offered by Union Carbide Corporation's Nuclear Division to begin work on a PhD in physics at the University of Tennessee, which he completed in 1972. He transferred from Y-12 to the Plasma Theory Section of the ORNL Thermonuclear Division. He developed and used a variety of computational programs to advance the exploration of the behavior of magnetically confined plasmas. He made three visits to the Soviet Union as a participant in US-USSR scientific exchanges, including a two-month stint as a visiting scientist at the Kurchatov Institute. In 1987 Charlie transferred to the Toroidal Confinement Physics Section, working with the spectroscopy group to measure and interpret impurity behavior and infer plasma parameters such as ion and electron temperature. In 1990, when national funding for fusion research was reduced, Charlie returned to nuclear criticality safety, serving as head of ORNL's program in that area until he retired in 1994. He continued to work as a consultant on all aspects of nuclear criticality safety until 2012 and was a member of the American Nuclear Society and the American Physical Society. For nearly 20 years, he was the proud owner of owner of N2606X, a Cessna P206 Stationair, holding a commercial pilot certificate and was a Certified Flight Instructor Instrument (CFII).

Cont'd Gaining re-admittance to university was challenging for engineering students because Japanese American citizens were banned from any campus that had grants to conduct classified government research. He eventually was admitted to Swarthmore College, a small Quaker liberal arts college with an excellent Engineering Department, graduating in 1951. He continued his studies at MIT, and then went to work in the aerospace industry. Tosh loved helicopters and worked primarily in helicopter rotor design. He worked briefly with Kaig Kurkjian on the HK1 aircraft and worked for Vertol Corporation until it was purchased by Boeing in 1960. He closed out his professional career at Boeing Rotorcraft Systems in Ridley Park, PA. He also had a passion for teaching and taught at Swarthmore College, Drexel University and at Widener University. His daughter, Elizabeth, writes :"I am sure the Pickett was his favorite slide rule. He must have had one at work and one at home because I don't think I ever saw his desk at home with out a yellow slide rule on it." Expanded biography

Peter D. Eickenberry Sr. writes "The Post Versalog 1460 was my personal slide rule that I acquired from another student while I was in high school 1961-1964. I used it while I was at the University of Michigan (taking engineering), while I worked in the engineering department at Lockheed Shipbuilding, and after joining the Coast Guard, during my Coast Guard career. (34 years) I only stopped using it when affordable had held scientific calculators became readily available. However it had a career before mine. The person I bought it from said he got it from his father who had used it for many years. Some of the others I used occasionally but most were purchased because I realized that slide rules were going to be obsolete in the age of desktop computers that could do the math much faster and much more accurately.". Other slide rules from his collection may be found in other galleries.