Stephen Chu's Toys

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal "girders" and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

Notes:

Airplane models and erector sets.

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 Autobiography in Gösta Ekspong
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Chu, Stephen (2002), Autobiography in Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Pub Co Inc, Nobel lectures, physics, 1996-2000, Retrieved on 2012-01-31
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