When they worked – #technicianjourney

Robert Hooke

Hooke was a 17th century polymath who started his scientific career as a technician working primarily for Robert Boyle.

Socrates

Socrates was a stonemason like his father.

Alan Rogan

When, with characteristic anarchic gusto, Pete Townshend of the Who smashed another electric guitar on stage, somebody had to put it back together, that person was Alan Rogan.

Eva Firmani

Eva standing in front of Discovery on the mobile launch platform on the way to the launch pad.

Tile technicians like Eva work kept astronuts safe as they left and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

Neil Papworth

Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message in 1991 when working as a technician. The message red “Merry Christmas”.

Gladys Owens was just 19 years of age when she arrived to work in the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was 1945 and she was to spend 8 months working there as a technician on the Manhattan Project. Gladys would become one of the “Calutron Girls” whose role, though none of them knew it at the time, was key to the building of the first atomic bomb.