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More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors

Posted on by under Gerontechnology, Inspiration

This is a re-post from The New York Times.

APRIL 17, 2015

Bob Nepper, an electrical engineer who retired from 3M Company decades ago, is working on a low-cost way to purify water in the world’s poorest countries. Credit: Angela Jimenez for The New York Times

LIKE many inventors, Bob Nepper, 82, is a compulsive improver. Mr. Nepper, an electrical engineer who lives in North St. Paul, Minn., has pet projects that have included a self-guided lawn mower and an outside faucet that can run hot and cold. His basement is stocked with tools like a lathe and a milling machine to craft his ideas.

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