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  • For a mere $25 you can have a special two CD set titled 'Hougen' which will help even the loneliest of otaku feel special as hundreds of girls (including voice actresses such as Rie Tanaka [most recently known as Nyx in

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • I really learned quantum mechanics (as did we all) from an intensive course that Jon Hougen gave at Carleton

    Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

  • Hougen, Takeshi Oka and Jim Watson and their families became our lifelong close friends.

    Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

  • Costain, Jon Hougen, Takeshi Oka and Jim Watson were to exert enormous direct and indirect influence on my scientific development.

    Harold Kroto - Autobiography 1997

  • The auto body industry adopted the device quickly, but Hougen had hopes for also taking on manufacturing with a heavier-duty hole cutter he called the Rotabroach.

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

  • Hougen had his eyes on a motor promising 150 foot-pounds.

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

  • But Hougen improved the blade by tweaking its geometry.

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

  • Hougen's tool was essentially a hole saw-a hollow tube with sharp edges that carved out a cylinder of metal rather than pushing it through like a regular drill.

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

  • "These companies had thousands of people on their payrolls and engineers coming out of their ears, all devoted to designing better twist drills," Hougen writes in his memoir

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

  • So in the middle of the magnetic plate, where the tool was attracted to the steel, Hougen added a toggle switch that would kill the whole operation should there be any unexpected shift between the tool and the beam it was secured to.

    Gizmodo Rachel Swaby 2012

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