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Gary Wilhelm is a retired engineer with a master’s degree from South Dakota State University, who did research and development work in America, Asia, and Europe for consumer, commercial, and military products, during a career of several decades. In addition to being a civilian engineer embedded with the Marines during the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969, he worked developing products ranging from EF Johnson citizens band radio, and the Texas Instruments home computer, communications technology for use within buildings, and with medical devices implanted within the body, to the Howitzer Improvement Program (HIP) for army artillery on the battlefield. He was also a representative on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) committee. He hosted the USA meeting of the committee at Honeywell.

Frugal Engineer

by Gary Wilhelm retired Engineer and Author of Good Afternoon Vietnam

Tag: children’s books

Book Reviews

Alex Asks Grandpa About the Olden Days: A 1940’s Story

November 5, 2019November 6, 2019

Alex Asks Grandpa About the Olden Days is my newest book. It is for children. When my wife was teaching school, her class would visit a one-room schoolhouse complete with a schoolmarm for an old-fashioned day of learning. Part of that experience was a letter-writing project for children to write to their grandparents about the […]