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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

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A Brief History of Gerald Bolt

In 19 51, at age 21, he gets his phd, becoming one of the youngest p h ds in the university's history to this day. On a fishing trip in the early fifties, he meets the daughter local doctor, naomi gilbert,. The two start dating and then get married. He also helps to design new methods for testing powerful artillery that's much more like the artillery they're making shoot so much further and faster than it ever has. In 19 53, he received attention from mc lean's magazine, which titled him canada's boy rocket scientist. His cantanker nature, though, increasingly asserted itself as a fundamentally pragmatic, experiment driven scientist

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