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Wilfred E. Johnson
Pages 157-162

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From page 157...
... Wilfrid served as a machinist's apprentice at Pacific Machine & Blacksmith Shop in Astoria on the Columbia River for six years. Enroute to receiving his Journeyman's certificate at age twenty-one, he became recognized as a most capable and dedicated mechanic in the repair en c} maintenance of all types of marine engines in the hundreds of small and large fishing boats making Astoria their home port.
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From page 158...
... They were married in 1930. In GE refrigeration engineering, Wilfrid became both a prolific inventor and technical paper writer during the 1930s, turning out papers on everything mechanical from diesel engine crankshafts to cone pulleys, flexural springs, and compressors, and obtaining and assigning to GE about a dozen patents on refrigeration devices.
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From page 159...
... Still later in World War IT (194~45) , while serving as division engineer in GE's Aircraft Gas Turbine Engineering Division, Syracuse, New York, Wilfrid recruited, organized, and trained an engineering force to carry out the development and production testing of early jet engines for aircraft.
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From page 160...
... In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his "contributions to jet engine manufacturing engineering and nuclear materials production." He was a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society, as well as a member of the
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From page 161...
... He did not get his own horse until he had been married for ten years, but was rarely without horses from that time on. Wilfrid remained personally grateful to this country throughout his lifetime for what he perceived it had offered to him in opportunities and rewards for a young immigrant boy with little initial formal schooling.
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