John Houghtaling invented magic fingers.He had over 20 missions on a B17 bomber in WWII. Mr. Pilgrim references it in his life the night of his daughters wedding(pg. 387). I found this interesting link from Wikipedia!:
In the 1950s, Houghtaling was again working as a salesman, this time selling vibrating beds in which the vibrating motor and bed were sold as a single unit that was clumsy, expensive and prone to failure.[1] At a service call for a broken unit, Houghtaling realized that the vibrating motor was the essential component, not the bed, and that a unit could be developed that would attach to any bed, not just the combination vibrating bed units he was selling.[3] Houghtaling worked in the basement of his Glen Rock, New Jersey, home and tested hundreds of motors before finding one that combined the minimum-needed weight, could be attached to the box springs of an existing bed and would provide the right level of vibration. Once a quarter was inserted into the attached coin meter, the motor would vibrate the bed for 15 minutes.[1] The coin mechanisms were modeled on similar devices that had been attached to radios and televisions in hotels.[4]
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