HOEL LAWRENCE BOWDITCH, 89; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, INVENTOR

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 21, 2004| Author: Tom Long, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Hoel Lawrence Bowditch was an inventor and industrial engineer who claimed to have discovered the secret of life: "fun," he said in an ABC-TV documentary that aired in 1995.

"He viewed the world as an imperfect place and felt he was uniquely qualified to improve it," Peter Bowditch of Foxborough, said yesterday of his father, 89, who died April 14 in a nursing home in Wrentham.

Mr. Bowditch, who invented flow measurement devices for industrial applications and children's toys, s...

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