{"id":411,"date":"2007-05-23T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/engineerings-in-my-blood\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:53:33","slug":"engineerings-in-my-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/engineerings-in-my-blood","title":{"rendered":"Engineering&#8217;s In My Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true. Both of my grandfathers were engineers; my father&#8217;s father was an electrical engineer and my mother&#8217;s father was a mechanical engineer. (It&#8217;s an interesting point that there was more overlap between those fields during their careers than there is now. My grandfather Schabtach did a lot of work on power-generating turbines, work which seems much more mechanical than electrical by today&#8217;s micro-miniature topics of electrical engineering.) My mother just ran across <a title=\"Stonebridge Estate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rchs.com\/Stonebridge\/stonebridge_estate.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> which has photos of a glamorous estate once owned by a more distant engineering relative, Oliver Crosby. Oliver Crosby was my father&#8217;s great-grandfather, born 1-29-1856, died 12-8-1922. Oliver designed some of the earth-moving equipment used to dig the Panama Canal and founded a company called American Hoist &amp; Derrick (later called AmHoist, I think) along the way. Oliver did fairly well with his work as the photos of his estate will attest. My family knows him mostly as the inventor of the Crosby Clip, a little gizmo used to fasten steel cables together. You&#8217;ve probably seen one if you happen to have looked at something like the bracing cables on a telephone pole; there&#8217;s a picture of them on <a title=\"Hanes Supply, a source of Crosby Clips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hanessupply.com\/newchanges\/forged_wire_rope_clips_i.html\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true. Both of my grandfathers were engineers; my father&#8217;s father was an electrical engineer and my mother&#8217;s father was a mechanical engineer. (It&#8217;s an interesting point that there was more overlap between those fields during their careers than there is now. My grandfather Schabtach did a lot of work on power-generating turbines, work&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/engineerings-in-my-blood\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineering&#8217;s In My Blood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}