Forrest M. Mims III is an American magazine columnist and author, born in Houston, Texas, who graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, served in Vietnam as an Air Force intelligence officer in 1967, and was a development engineer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory from 1968 to 1970. He has no formal academic training in science but went on to a career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist, and his series of hand-lettered and illustrated electronics books sold over 7.5 million copies. He was a co-founder of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.
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His series of hand-lettered and illustrated electronics books sold over 7.5 million copies and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most prolific citizen scientists.
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Ed Roberts and Forrest Mims founded MITS in December 1969 to produce miniaturized telemetry modules for model rockets such as a roll rate sensor.
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