Back in the 1970s, I was a very young writer piecing together a living with freelance writing assignments. One of my most interesting and memorable was with Tony Ingram (not his real name).

Tony was several decades older than me and was then retired. He had had a long and distinguished career as an inventor-scientist. He had traveled the world many times and was involved in some of the key discoveries that helped power our modern civilization.

Tony was not a writer, but he had several projects that he thought might make interesting books. So he hired me to see what we could come up with. We worked together off and on for several weeks.

I had a great liking for Tony. He........

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