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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my grandfather, Abraham Roelfs Bouwman, and to my father, Simon Derk Bouwman.

My grandfather was called, MeFixee, by those who sought his services as a locksmith, gunsmith, machinist, and tool-and-die maker. In 1908, he brought my father, uncle, and grandmother, to America, in search of opportunities not available to him, as a mechanical engineer, in the Groningen Province of the Netherlands. He had a cleft lip, soft palate, and glass...