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Allyn Collins Vine
Allyn Collins Vine
Pages 274-279
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He is credited with aclolescent raids on the local telephone company junk piles for wires and electrical equipment to build contraptions such as burglar alarms. Characteristic of his approach to ocean engineering, his comment on this aspect of his life was that engineering education today lacks adequate exposure to junk piles.
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For Al this was a time that determined the course of the rest of his life. With his master's degree and a full-time job, he proposed marriage to Adelaide Holton, a young woman he had come to admire while at Hiram, and the two of them settled in Woods Hole, raising three children, converting a barn into a comfortable house with a view of Vineyard Sound, en cl playing their considerable part in the hospitable Woods Hole community.
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Since most submarines were being built on the northeast coast of the United States, he and his colleagues arranged to ride nearly every new boat on its initial trials as instructors, ensuring that crews went to the Pacific with full understanding of the environmental factors that would help them to be effective, and even in many instances, to survive. While his instrumentation development and sound propagation studies were the tangible engineering activities of his World War IT period, a much more important and enduring contribution came in the form of the friendships that he fostered between members of the science community and the submarine operators.
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With typical pragmatic concern for the usefulness of this new tool, Al and his colleagues built a fullscale mockup of the forward part of the sub and immediately suggested alterations, eventually adopted, to make it more effective. When lease arrangements with Reynolds fell through, Momsen was able to shift the allocated funds to WHOI for construction of a smaller, shallower-operating, but more maneuverable craft, and the Oceanographic became the developer as well as the operator, with Vine playing his usual part as critical adviser.
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Beyond these many specific contributions, Al played the role of adviser on unnumbered committees en c! studies, often being the participant who would ask what at first seemed to be an irrelevant question, or make the key irreverent remark, that would turn the discussion in some new and fruitful direction.
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