The exception to the rule.

 When a maquette became a reality(if you believe)

Fred Rogers

March 20, 1928 - February 27, 2003

R.I.P.

sandrewn

(I still believe)

Admiral Hyman Rickover was a legend in the US Navy. He graduated from the Annapolis in 1922 and earned a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Columbia in 1930. He served in a wide variety of ships, but preferred small ships and served in submarines.

Rickover was the driving force behind nuclear power in the Navy, launching the world's first nuclear sub, USS Nautilus in 1954.

Rickover was known for being a taskmaster with a sharp tongue with many pithy quotes. One of his most famous was the best scale for a prototype is one to one. He was NOT in favor of the maquette for this role.

This idea was not popular at the time, but worked out brilliantly. The Nautilus served until 1980, was often a testbed for new equipment and systems, and is now a museum ship.

Not to be confused with marquis , European aristocratic title, as in the Marquis de Lafayette, or a marquee, a large tent used for social or commercial functions, or the canopy over the entrance to a theater or hotel.