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William, or Bill to his team mates, worked at Philco / Ford with his team to get high reliable satellites in orbit. His individual contribution was the materials side of what held the electronics together - the glues, the solders, the substrates, the interfaces, and the peculiar effects that environments played on them. In his office, he accumulated years of study of why materials failed and worked in specific ways. Sometimes, even when a satellite was long on orbit and an anomaly occured, he'd dig through this to discover how the materials and construction effects contributed to the anomaly. Sometimes the processes were hard to replicate from one project to the next. Like stained glass work of the middle ages, much materials knowledge is hard to retain, because its base of knowledge is not as appreciated as the object d'arte it creates. |
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