Nice picture! Thanks.

That was the era that my father grew up in. He was trained in Germany as sheet metal expert.  He came to the USA after WW I and was working in the metal fabrication arena.  He became a self trained metals expert because new stainless steel and new aluminum products were coming out monthly.  Each sales brocure on a new metal was a text book on metallurgy. Collages didn't teach this stuff because it didn't exist.  Once the ball got rolling it was very steep down hill.

Reminds me of 40 years ago when I first went to work, my company took its first delivery of an integrated circuit. Over the next 10 years I became a logic designer. It was the same as Pop described it - every data sheet on a new circuit was a text book.  Makes you wounder what is next!! 

And as I learned the last few years I was in the field with phone company.  When went bad there was no repairing it in the office.  Just replace with new plug in board.  Even got to where we didn't use a scope any more.  Just follow trouble locating manual according to diagnostic print out.  What really made it interesting was when we had a marginal board.