The Erector Makes The Man
Winter 1999
| Volume 14
| Issue 3
HENRY PETROSKI’S “THE TOYS THAT Built America” (Spring 1998), struck a deep chord. I enclose a photo of myself taken at Christmas 1931. Note the Erector set to my right, my chief present that year. It was a favorite for many years, and although I did not become an engineer, I think it may well have been influential in my lasting interest in the sciences.
Allen G. Debus
Morris Fishbein
Professor Emeritus
of the History of
Science and Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago, III.
