Few people would expect that someone born in the small town of Gadsden, Alabama during the Great Depression would end up being involved in everything from the US Navy to the Atlas II ICBM missile, but Ernest Jerry Collins did just that. After serving in the US Navy as an Electronics Technician, he used the GI Bill to earn his Bachelor and Master degrees in Physics. His career included working at a small TV repair shop, Convair-Astronautics, Electro Instruments, American Systems, Teledyne, Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild, Technology Development Corporation, Teknekron, Systems for Automatic Test,...
Few people would expect that someone born in the small town of Gadsden, Alabama during the Great Depression would end up being involved in everything ...