He spent most of his final 37 years on Cape Breton, working on projects as varied as the vacuumjacket (a forerunner of the iron lung), man-carrying tetrahedral kites and, most famously, the hydrofoil.
He's the young designer behind an also young label poised to make Marty McFly's vacuum-powered jacket from Back to the Future Part II a real-life retail item.
