[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 148 (Tuesday, October 21, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2114]
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     A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO HAROLD A. McMASTER FOR HIS IMMEASURABLE 
                    CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTHWEST OHIO

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                          HON. PAUL E. GILLMOR

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 21, 2003

  Mr. GILLMOR. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I rise today to 
pay special tribute to an outstanding gentleman from Northwest Ohio, 
Mr. Harold A. McMaster.
  As a youth growing up in Northwest Ohio, Harold McMaster's hero was 
another northern Ohio product, Thomas Alva Edison. From an early age 
Harold understood the importance of setting goals and seeing them 
through.
  Mr. Speaker, Harold McMaster was a unique individual who combined the 
foresight and analytical nature of the scientist with the acumen and 
``street smarts'' of the successful businessman. The former helped him 
``see'' how to do things, while the latter enabled him to commercialize 
his innovations.
  A physicist, he held more than 100 patents dealing with glass 
tempering, solar energy and rotary engines. Harold McMaster was known 
in many circles as the father of glass tempering.
  He graduated in 1938 from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor 
of Arts Degree in Mathematics and in 1939 with a Master of Science 
Degree in Nuclear Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy.
  In 1940, he went to work as a research physicist for Toledo, Ohio's 
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, a producer of flat glass for windows 
and automobile windshields. He received one of his first patents in the 
early days of World War II for a periscope used by fighter pilots to 
see behind them during combat. McMaster Motor is the fourth enterprise 
to be built from the germ of an idea by McMaster and his associates. 
Other companies founded and nurtured by Harold McMaster include: 
Permaglass, Inc., Glasstech, Inc. and Solar Cells, Inc.
  Harold McMaster received the prestigious Phoenix Award as the 
national glass industry's Man of the Year in 1993. In 1987, Harold 
McMaster was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University 
of Toledo.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in paying special tribute 
to Harold A. McMaster. Northwest Ohio was served well by Harold 
McMaster's innovation and business skill. The legacy of his genius will 
continue to benefit future generations in engineering and technology.

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