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Many a young man woke on Christmas morning to find that Santa Claus had left an Erector Set for him under the Christmas tree. The young man’s imagination ran wild as he opened the wooden or later metal case with an array of girders, wheels, beams, nuts and bolts (and a motor!). His thoughts were in full bloom as he envisioned building a ferris wheel, a skyscraper, or a “robot.”
George Logue was one of those young men. Born Jan. 30, 1927, in Williamsport, Logue was the son of Dr. Joseph and Frances Baier Logue. As a young man, he received an Erector Set as a Christmas gift. In high school, he met another boy who had received a more elaborate set, creating even more possibilities for the two to envision and construct. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Penn State in 1951, he began a career with International Harvester, Huntsville, Missouri, eventually becoming the head of research and development. Preferring the challe