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Rowe started to write a remembrance that he could give his children and grandchildren, but he soon realized that being an engineer was an essential part of his life story, and he changed his focus to more impersonal things—references to Six Sigma, engineering triumphs, and various corporate challenges crowd the text— in hopes that the volume might also encourage young people to consider going into engineering themselves. Rowe became fascinated with air flight as a child watching the Battle of Britain unfold in the skies above London. Eventually he became president of General Electric Aircraft Engines, the US business whose jet engines had a role in the cold war and in making commercial flight affordable for average citizens. His business memoir is dotted with b&w images. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Calvin Gordin
reviewed The Power to Fly: An Engineer's Life on November 28, 2017 The Power to Fly: An Engineer's Life
Well, as far as a biography goes, there isn't all that much and what there is, is only adding to the impression of a somewhat disjointed personality.
The impression this book left me was an attempt to set the record straight, which is never a good thing in a biography.
Writing-wise the book is awful. Repetition ad nauseam, boasting, etc. We don't really get to know the man behind all those achievements, that is, the universal remote control, Apple I, Apple II, Apple III (Ahem, sorry, my mistake, this one was "invented" by a committe lead by Steve Jobs, ah ah).
If you're really interested to know the Wozniak's personal take on the "invention" of the personal computer, go ahead and read it. If not, there's already a all bunch of information on the web, where the record is already straight...
Stick to it.
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