Douglas M. Yeaman’s
Biographic Portfolio
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fair, winning first place with the construction
of a model fluorescent light bulb.
At the age of 14 he built his first working
rocket, (see photograph) designing the
engine and performance capabilities, with a
convergent-divergent nozzle and fueled by a
zinc-sulfur solid fuel. (The first launch
blewwww up. The second went over 2000
feet!)
At the age of 15 he built his first binary
computer from scratch design, learning
binary code and number system in the pro-
cess. This was created from relays and wire,
with no outside design help and performed
simple addition. He won first place and a trip
sponsored by the Navy to San Diego and
aboard an aircraft carrier, plus a trip to Point
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