Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen Which detail best supports Kamen's opinion that he was hooked on m
aking things out of metal? My next challenge was that I wanted to make things out of metal, so I became interested in how to use a lathe, a milling machine, and so on. I went to buy this new equipment I thought I'd need and met a man who had a machine shop of his own who was about to retire and move to Florida. He allowed me to visit him after school and on weekends to observe how he used all his tools. I was hooked. When he retired I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well--they were treasures! He allowed me to visit him after school and on weekends to observe how he used all his tools. When he retired I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well they were treasures! One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine..could be carried into the basement At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this. I decided to put his entire machine shop in our basement, but there were two problems... One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine, weighing two thousand
making an appeal to all for basic human decency in race relations
explaining the oppression black South Africans had faced for decades
showing the parallel between apartheid in South Africa and the Civil Rights movement. All 3 of these points were covered by Nelson Mandela's above speech and that basically he was appealing to all South Africans be they white or black to learn to live together in peace and equitably and renounce the apartheid white racist regime of the past.
