This is the story of the long life of an inventor, artist, entrepreneur and family historian born into a prominent Quaker family, as seen through his own eyes. His correspondence begins at the age of nine, when he is sent to a boarding school where he is bullied, undernourished, badly housed and frequently ill. But he learns to play the violin, to paint in oils by an inspiring art master and takes an early interest in engineering.

He describes his days at Cambridge, Munich under the Third Reich and WW2 when he develops new mines for the Admiralty in Portsmouth. We see him working in his London attic developing electronic applications that revolutionise colour printing and how he builds up a company to make and sell them to printers around the world. Forty years ahead of his time, he is the first artist to be inspired by images of nature magnified under an electron microscope. He called them 'Micropaintings'.

His son Richard links his life to contemporary events, beginning with John's father witnessing a Zeppelin raid over Hampstead in 1915, and his Uncle Bertie's account of shooting down two Zeppelins over England.

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Richard Crosfield was born in England in 1946 and was educated at the Quaker Leighton Park School (Reading), George Washington University (Washington DC) and Columbia University (New York). He has worked in finance, marketing and as managing director in the engineering, printing and publishing industries, including two years with his father in Crosfield Electronics. He has lived in America, Colombia and Spain and currently resides in Tunbridge Wells. He has worked as a volunteer for Amnesty International, both in Spain and the UK and is currently Colombia Country Coordinator at AIUK. He is a founder member of the Irregular Writers Collective.

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