Early Career
Upon graduation, McDermott began working for the Goodyear Rubber Company. In 1923 he began employment with Western Electric Company where he first met J. Clarence Karcher. This experience inspired in McDermott a desire for graduate studies. Earlier Everette Lee DeGolyer, vice president and general manager of Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Dallas, had learned of Karcher's 1921 experiments with the seismograph and held a meeting with Karcher that resulted in the creation of Geophysical Research Corporation (GRC) of Tulsa where Karcher was made vice president. This was as a subsidiary of Amerada. McDermott received a Master of Arts in physics from Columbia University in 1925 and immediately began to work for his friend Karcher. GRC introduced the seismic reflection method which was quickly accepted by the petroleum industry as a promising new tool during the next five years.
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