In his memoir, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman recalls his experiences with gadgets that lead to his career as a physicist. The economy was even worse in the 1930s than it is now, but he had no trouble in collecting broken radios, auto parts and dry cells from old telephones. With these odds and ends, he was able to teach himself about electricity, electronics, some chemistry and to build his own microphones, radio transmitters, motors and electric eyes.
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