Richard g drew biography

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1899, Richard Gurley Drew was 22 years old and a banjo player in the local “Athletic Orchestra” when he applied for a job he saw posted in the newspaper. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company—a modest locally based manufacturer of sandpaper— was looking for a lab technician.

In his letter of application, young Drew noted his banjo playing, his year as a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Minnesota, the correspondence school course he was taking in machine design, and his experience driving a tractor.

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He was hired.

“He created a greenhouse environment, a skunkworks, where we could do anything, try anything. When you’re an oddball in a permissive environment, very often things turn out well.”

Paul Hanson, retired 3M technical director, (in) A Century of Innovation – The 3M Story

A few years later, while testing sandpaper samples at an auto body shop, Drew noticed the painters’ struggles w Richard Drew (June 22, 1899 — December 14, 1980), American ...

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