Richard Nedbal

Dickie: Memoirs of a Mad Scientist Richard Nedbal

Fun Memoir of a Whiz Kid Turns Science on Its Ear
 
Dickie was a weird kid. Too bad nobody appreciated his scientific smarts. Everyone just thought he was annoying. Of course, he did almost burn down his school with a science fair project.
 
He also turned on the neighbors' lights with high-powered radio gear. Once he built a one-armed robot that drank too much. He stuffed monkeys into small race cars, violated top-secret security procedures, and performed so many other antics that he truly earned his moniker "mad scientist."
 

This goofy and humorous autobiography tells what it was like for a nerdy kid growing up in the '50s and '60s in suburban Chicago. So come along and join Dickie as he adopted the phrase that still gets him into trouble: "After all, how hard can it be?" Watch out, world!