[NJARC] Re: Jersey inventors join Hall of Fame: Blonder & Tongue

[John Dilks, K2TQN]

>Hi John,
>         Thanks for the news about Ben Tongue.  I met him years ago and he 
> struck
>me as a pleasant, down to earth kind of guy.  He deserves his citation.
>I had fun as a kid making the same $.10 electric motor.  You pushed the
>parts through a cardboard base to hold them in place.  You wound the
>armature and field with not many more than a dozen turns of enameled wire,
>and you were amazed when you put the battery juice to it and it spun.
>                                                 73 de W1NTE