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Did I misunderstand this question? I believe you said the answer was Jim Croce. Wouldn't that have been Ritchie Valens aka Richard Valenzuela who recorded the hit, La Bamba?
Valens and J.P "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in 1959 in a plane crash with the great Buddy Holley of Crickets fame. Jim Croce died in another plane crash in 1973. Both Holley and Croce left an indelible mark on American music. Thanks.
John
I know. It was a joke....which you would have to backtrack through the thread to get.
I developed a revolutionary system, that significantly impacted the whaling industry on the high seas, even though I never went to sea myself. My idea seems very simple when you think about it, but nobody had ever done it before. Now, a century and a half later, it is the primary process that enables a hugely important commercial industry. Many people got immediate wealth from my invention, but I failed to patent it, so I became impoverished, and as a reward for my work, the state of Pennsylvania awarded me a small annuity in my old age.
Addditinal HINT: What I did had nothing to do with the sea or with whaling---but it made a sharp transition from a whaling product to an alternative. The product has since become much more important than whalers ever imagined that it could be, through being used for new applications.
No, it's an industry much, much bigger, globally, than mere machine screws and harpoons. A staggeringly big industry, that carries with it the balance of political power in the world.
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