"From A Hod to an Odd EM Wave is quick and easy to read, I think that it is a concise entertaining memoir that covers an interesting engineering career."
A concise memoir of an interesting engineering career. Starting with a description of the English education system at the time that directed David Weston onto a building site after school, despite not quite being in possession of the strength required to work on the hod, and moves through Weston’s career to working on deployable black boxes and medical treatments. Weston has had a varied number of jobs, which he explains easily as we move through his career and also around the world. What I liked about this memoir is that it doesn’t just focus on Weston’s life and career, he explains the context around having a passion for fixing electronics, but the school system directed him away from a more direct engineering path. He explains the history of the places he lived in Germany, giving us a broader context of the places as well as his experiences with the people. There’s descriptions of when his work took him to oil rigs in the North Sea, providing background of Ocean Prince and Ocean Ranger sinkings. It makes this an interesting read for curious minds. The more technical aspects of Weston’s jobs and later inventions are explained in a way that anyone can understand and in a way that you can feel his interest in the subject, which then rubs off on the reader. There’s appendices at the end of the book going into these projects in even greater detail which is a nice touch, as the information is included but doesn’t slow down the pace of the overall narrative. From A Hod to an Odd EM Wave is quick and easy to read, I think that it is a concise entertaining memoir that covers an interesting engineering career.
Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading Ambassador
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A memoir of Engineering persistence and engineering and human diversity. Reminiscences on the human dimension of an engineering career. Charts an unconventional engineering career spanning multiple continents and decades offering many insights, much humor and many struggles. It starts at the age of 15 on a building site in England (on the hod) and ends as a distinguished engineer, finding unusual behavour (an odd EM wave) and inventions. One reviewer found it both heart warming and heart breaking.
From a hod to an odd EM wave features in the following genres: Indie Author Books, Indie Books We Love, Biographies & Autobiographies
From a hod to an odd EM wave is available in Ebook
From a hod to an odd EM wave was written by David Weston and published by Parker Publishers
