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