John F. McGrath
Male, Deceased Person
1922 – 2007
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Who was John F. McGrath?
John F. McGrath, Jr was the designer of the first electronic railroad track scale for Union Carbide. He also designed strain-gauge testing devices for the USS Albacore, the prototype hull design for nuclear submarines. He invented the high-energy X-ray collimator used on several orbiting solar observatories, as well as strain-gauge transducers used in testing early B-52 bombers.
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