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Ohio Inventors Inducted Into HOF

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM EDT

The Ohio inventors of a power system for space probes are now members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the U.S. Patent Office in Virginia.John Birden and Ken Jordan developed the generator still used in deep space probes while working at a private laboratory in Miamisburg.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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