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Halt electricity with only a socket wrench

Before there’s a patent, there’s an idea.

Before that, there’s a person with a problem to solve.

(5) I went to a union apprenticeship, and I’m still union. I ended up on a job at Merck pharmaceuticals. They have a lot of substations with a medium voltage, which goes anywhere from 2 000 volts

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