Lee Mason oral history recording Part 2

Title

Lee Mason oral history recording Part 2

Description

Part 2 of an audio recording of an oral history of Lee Mason on the Silicon Forest and Tektronix. Topics in this section include: resigning from the Southern Pacific Railroad; returning to Oregon in 1956 and applying for work at Tektronix; being hired to work on the production line; doing shift work with sheet metal and injection molding; manufacturing processes; working in the plastic pre-production unit; plastics plant in the early 1980s; creating his own small plastics company; retirement around 1984; other spinoff plastics companies; how production rates were set; racial and ethnic diversity of the production staff; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.

Creator

Mason, Lee

Is Part Of

High Tech collection

Subject

Washington County (Or.) -- History
High technology

Place

Washington County (Or.)

Extent

1 sound file (1 hr., 37 min.)

Language

English

Identifier

WCM_OH_340b

Rights

In Copyright
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Source

Five Oaks Museum

Contributor

Hedberg, David

Format

WMA

Type

Sound