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Claude Shannon Walking Tour - downtown Gaylord, Michigan
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Claude's boyhood friend, Rodney Hutchins, lived 4 blocks to the southeast of the Shannon's house. The 2 boys rigged up a telegraph line using barbed-wire between the 2 houses. Rodney's sister, Shirley, described several other inventions and experiments the young adventurists concocted during their youth.


Grade school classmates of Claude Shannon including Rodney Hutchins

Tree, Team, Crew, Child

, Jimmy Soni. Goodman, Bob. A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. New York, New York. Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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Otsego County Historical Society