An article by By Charles Harmon

Me: A Super-Mini Biography

has been added to www.charlesharmon.com his personal site.

Charles gives us a brief look at some of the things he has done in a several page expose. This is easy reading as there are not too many details included. It is a general summary of a few of his interests and jobs. He plans to add links to other pages in his much more detailed exploits and situations.

I started late, at about age 13, becoming interested in electronics. My Uncle Kenneth who lived upstairs was an expert in repairing radios, TVs and all sorts of electronic things. I learned a lot from him. During high school I was a partner in all sorts of experiments including putting a trail of chemicals across the hallway in the high school and lighting it. It was lots of beautiful colors because of the various chemicals we included. It also caused a lot of chaos because we lit it right at break time between classes when everyone changed classes.

That was a dangerous prank, but here is another not so dangerous prank we did. We, a group of us sat at a lunch table (they held about 8 or 10 students) and secretly placed the small juice glasses under all four legs. It was hard to detect with all of us sitting at the table. When people started coming down the aisle with their lunch tray, someone would surely bump into the table and it would fall and make a loud racket, plus our trays would all go to the floor too. Often the person who did it would drop their tray in the process and litter the floor with their lunch. Everyone in the lunchroom near the table would crack up laughing. Of course the teachers were greatly unhappy and sometimes we would get in trouble.

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