Tiffen, The Creative Catalyst: A Maverick Who Quietly Reinvented Industry Standards

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Tiffen The Creative Catalyst: An Unassuming Maverick Who Quietly Reinvented Industry Standards by Ira Tiffen While many know his name, few today may know what he did that was so important, because we have long been taking it for granted. At seventeen, he was an airplane mechanic; at nineteen, foreman of a machine shop; and...

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