Hisashi Misawa’s "Germ Heat" - (2)
Heating everything at half the cost
Hisashi Misawa was born in 1941 in Jinan, in the northwestern part of Shandong Province, China, where his father worked for the Japanese National Railways. After the war the family repatriated, taking up residence in Kobe. Hisashi attended the city’s public schools. What distinguished him from other kids was a fascination with electricity. In the third grade he built a battery-operated three-story elevator for submission to a Hyogo Prefecture competition. He won first prize. Needless to say, when he matriculated at Osaka University, he selected electrical engineering as his major.




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