Mike Rowe here, it's the way I heard it.

And full disclosure, there was a time when I thought this podcast might be called

people you should know because I wanted very much to use this space to introduce you to people like today's guest.

And Chuck, I assume you would agree with that. Oh, yeah. This guy is

definitely worth knowing and particularly the subject matter that you're going to hear about is worth

knowing. And he's also a guy who you don't know. Yes. You don't know Jack Teeter. And you probably

don't know the subject of the documentary he made called Blind Logic, his great

uncle named Ralph Teeter. And you probably don't remember the company that he built.

It was called the Perfect Circle, and it was out of Indiana. And the perfect circle made these, well, these perfect circles that you would put over a cylinder, basically in a combustion engine.

Yes.

And it improved lubrication, I believe, of the pistons.

Yes.

I think of I'm remembering that correctly.

Well, before the cars were rolling off the supply, not the supply chain, what do you call it? The

assembly line. You know, things were very, very different, you know, before Henry Ford kind of owned the

whole thing. Yep. And this is a story of a man who was born in 1895, who was a natural inventor, a skilled tradesperson,

and who not only went on to build this incredible company that you probably never heard of,

but also developed a couple of things that you probably used today, especially if you own an

automobile.

I refer in no particular order to the automatic

transmission and cruise control. Now, what makes it doubly interesting? And honestly, it would be

interesting enough if that's all Ralph Teeter did. Pretty big accomplishments, yes. He was blind.

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