1961 Press Photo IBM engineer Herbert Owens with $32,000 suggestion award in MD

Herbert F. Owens, a 36-year-old engineer at International Business Machine Corporation's Baltimore branch, poses with a device that won him $32,000 as a company suggestion award. IBM officials said the award was probably the largest of its type ever made. Owens' idea involved a design change in the drive unit for magnetic tape used in high-speed computers.

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.