Abbott Handerson Thayer, My Children, detail

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Robert Klark Graham

Robert Klark Graham invented the plastic used for shatter-proof eyeglasses, and he made a fortune. After he sold his company, he began thinking about how he could use his money to help the world. He talked at length with Hermann J. Mueller, a Nobel Prize-winner in genetics, and they came up with the idea of a sperm bank that would store and distribute the sperm of exceptional men. They named it The Repository for Germinal Choice.  (more…)

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Editor’s Note:

Robert K. Graham (1906–1997) was co-founder and director of The Repository for Germinal Choice, a California-based sperm bank which stored and distributed the sperm of Nobel Prize winners and other men of exceptional ability. He invented and manufactured the plastic used for shatter-proof eye glasses and was author of The Future of Man. (more…)

Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary, 1766

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Whatever happened to the Repository for Germinal Choice? I read that it closed in 1999, but were the children born from this program ever studied? 

All prospective parents signed statements promising that they would take part in surveys in the future, (more…)