![]() Hanratty’s multimillion dollar career detour enabled him to begin collecting rare books, capped by the 900-page First Folio now at UC Irvine. So, instead of arias, he turned to arithmetic and computers, and struck it rich as the father of computer-aided design and manufacturing, aka CAD/CAM. ![]() But while serving in the Korean War as a gunner in the Air Force, he was in a B-29 bomber crash that left his lungs and vocal cords scarred by chemical fumes. A longtime Bard fan whose parents worked on Shakespeare productions at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Hanratty originally planned to be a professional opera singer. ![]() In media interviews, Hanratty - who died in 2019 - explained the twists of fate that led to the gift. Normally locked in a vault, UC Irvine’s folio - a first-edition book of Shakespeare’s plays - was donated to the campus in 1986 by alumnus Patrick Hanratty, a computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who paid $241,000 for the volume in 1983. This 1604 anatomy book represents the growing knowledge of the human body during Shakespeare’s time. ![]()
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