The thriving E.A. Fischione Instruments company began in the mid 60’s, while Eugene Fischione was employed as a research machinist by US Steel in its Fundamental Research Laboratory in Monroeville, PA (Pittsburgh suburb). The Bain Lab was in its heyday with a large staff of energetic and creative scientists with money to spend on equipment. The highly competent “Gene” Fischione was much in demand to make the special devices that everybody wanted and the old refrain “the line forms on the left, dear” describes the situation rather well. With three new TEMs in the lab and a 1 million volt version on the way, many of Gene’s projects involved EM devices and specimen preparation equipment. Frequently, visitors to the Bail Lab saw the custom-made devices and craved them on sight as they recognized the close connection between good specimen preparation the remarkable productivity of the lab.