10-22-15 02:22 BOB KLAHN wrote to ED VANCE about Wow...
Howdy! Bob,

 BK> {at}MSGID: 
 BK>  ...

 EV> In the 1950's I remember seeing a picture in a Mechanix
 EV> Illustrated magazine of a tiny Drill Bit that employees at
 EV> a General Electric plant In the USA had made and iirc they
 EV> sent it to a Watch Company in Switzerland to show them what
 EV> they accomplished.

 EV> Later the Swiss sent the Drill Bit back to G.E. with a hole
 EV> they drilled in it.
 EV> The picture in the magazine showed the bit with the hole in
 EV> it.

 EV> Some things like that I haven't forgot.....yet.   

 EV> 73

 BK>  Now that you mention it I remember that story, but it was a
 BK>  Russian Drill bit and an American trade show.

That must have been later, like in the 1970's or after that.
I'm still fairly sure in my foggy brain that it was G.E. who made
the tiny bit that they were proud of, and wanted to show off to the
Swiss Watchmakers.

Mechanix Illustrated (MI) was the first magazine I subscribed to.

I looked at Popular Mechanics (PM), MI
(and I think Popular Science(PS) if it was published then)
at my library to compare them before deciding to order MI.

To narrow it down I think I subscribed between 1953 and 1956. ???? ??

 BK>  I believe your one since I now know someone who actually saw
 BK> it.

Yeah! You better believe Him even if His Keyboard gives Him troubles
all the time.   .... ..

73


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