The Last Clean Room Post (Probably)
Andrew Steele sent me a link to a story about Willis Whitfield, the inventor of the clean room. Here's the introduction:The idea seemed so simple to Willis Whitfield that he didn’t think it was an invention. He couldn’t believe someone hadn’t thought of it. To keep a room very clean, let air be the janitor — a “janitor” sweeping the premises every six seconds.
The modern electronic age as we know it began in the early 1960s when Willis, a Sandia engineer, envisioned using fans not only to send outside air through filters into a room but also to remove the air in equal measure through exhaust pipes in the far wall.
See the full story here.
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