Harold McMaster, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHarold McMaster
American physicist
Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1916
Date of Death: 25-Aug-2003
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Harold McMaster
- Harold A.
- McMaster (July 20, 1916 – August 25, 2003) was an inventor with over 100 patents and entrepreneur who founded four companies.
- Fortune Magazine called him "The Glass Genius".
- He also worked on developing commercial-scale solar cell technology, and developed a new type of engine, the "McMaster Rotary Engine." McMaster was an inventor early on.
- His father gave him a set of tools at age 6.
- By 8, he had built a set of farm machinery, by 10, a threshing machine that husked corn, and by 12 he was making car motors.Following his graduation from Ohio State with a combined master's degree in physics, mathematics, and astronomy in 1939, McMaster worked as the first research physicist ever employed by the Libbey Owens Ford Glass in Toledo, Ohio.
- He received his first patent during WWII for a periscope used by fighter pilots to see behind them.
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