Charles F. Kettering
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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876–November 25, 1958) was an American explorer, engineer, businessman, and holder of 186 patents.
He was a founder of Delco and was in charge of research at GM from 1920 to 1947.
The electric starter motor and leaded gasoline were two of his most popular automotive innovations.
He was also responsible for the development of Freon refrigerant for refrigeration and air conditioning systems in association with the DuPont Chemical Company.
He was also responsible for the creation of Duco lacquers and enamels, the first practical colored paints for mass-produced automobiles, at DuPont.
He invented the "Bug" aerial torpedo, the world's first aerial missile when working with the Dayton-Wright Company.
He pioneered the development of portable, lightweight two-stroke diesel engines, revolutionizing the locomotive and heavy equipment industries.
He established the Kettering Foundation, a non-partisan research charity, in 1927.
On January 9, 1933, he was featured on the front cover of Time magazine.
Early life
Charles was born in Loudonville, Ohio, United States, and was the fourth of Jacob Henry Kettering and Martha (Hunter) Kettering's fourth child. In school, poor eyesight caused him headaches. After graduation, he followed Emma Watson to Bunker Hill School in a teaching role. He was an engaging and ingenious tutor, to all. He attracted students to evening scientific demonstrations on electricity, heat, magnetism, and gravity.
He attended The College of Wooster before transferring to Ohio State University. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He had to leave due to eye damage and was employed as a foreman of a telephone line crew. At first, the end of his studies caused him to be depressed. Then found ways to use his electrical engineering skills on the job, and his spirits were revived. Olive Williams, his future wife, was also present in the movie. When his eye health improved, he was able to return to school and graduated from OSU in 1904 with an electrical engineering degree.
Personal life
Kettering married Olive Williams of Ashland, Ohio, on August 1, 1905. Eugene Williams Kettering, their only child, was born on April 20, 1908. Eugene W. Kettering joined Winton Engine in 1930, which was later bought by GM and was then integrated into the General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD). The younger Kettering became a central figure in the development of the EMD 567 locomotive engine and the Detroit Diesel 6-71 engine, serving with EMD until his retirement in 1960.
In 1914, Charles Kettering built "Ridgeleigh Terrace," a house on the seafront. This house was the first in the United States to have electric air conditioning, according to local reports. Eugene Kettering, son of Ridgeleigh Terrace, was his home until his death. Virginia Kettering, Eugene's wife, lived in the house for many years, renovating and redecorating it. The house was badly damaged in a fire in the late 1990s, but it was rebuilt according to the original blueprints.
"It doesn't matter if you try and try again and fail." Some of his best lines include: "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail." It doesn't matter if you try and fail and then fail to try again. "Failures are finger posts on the road to glory," the narrator said. "My interest is in the future because I will spend the remainder of my life there." .
Kettering died on November 25, 1958, the fifth anniversary of the exhibition. After his burial, his body was laid on display at the Engineer's Club and later was laid on display in the Woodland Cemetery mausoleum in Dayton, Ohio.
Flxible, and later career
Flxible Sidecar Company was founded in 1914 with the support of Kettering, who later became president of the company and joined the board of directors. Kettering invested heavily in the company's early years, particularly after 1916, when Kettering sold his company, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco), to United Motors for $2.5 million. Kettering continued to serve as president of Flxible until he became chairman of the board in 1940, a position he held until his death in 1958.
In 1918, Delco was sold to GM as part of the United Motors Company. Delco was the genesis of the General Motors Research Corporation and Delco Electronics. Kettering was appointed vice president of GM Research Corporation in 1920 and spent 27 years as Vice President of the United States Research Corporation.
He was in charge of research and development at GM's Dayton research labs from 1918 to 1923, and then started to commercialize air-cooled engines for cars and trucks. For heat dissipation, they used fans blowing air across copper fins. A combination of causes, non-scientific and technological, stifled commercialization, which was set up between 1921 and 1923. Air-cooled engines have been commercially successful in various industries (small engines, aircraft, and automobiles), but GM's "copper-cooled" automotive engine was inauspicious at one point.
Kettering's fuel study was based on his assumption that oil would be in short supply and that additives would make more efficient engines with higher compression. His "high percentage" option was to mix ethanol with gasoline, while his "low percentage alternative" looked for additives that would be included in small amounts to raise the octane rating of gasoline, which would be described later. Thomas Midgley Jr. and Kettering introduced tetraethyllead (TEL) in December 1921 as an engine blocker that would prevent engine knocking at a rate of one thousand to one. Although ethanol cannot be isolated, TEL's use as an additive could be useful. Instead of other options, Kettering and Midgley obtained their patent and began to promote the use of TEL as an additive. In 1923, Kettering became the first president of the newly formed Ethyl Corporation, which began producing TEL. Robert A. Kehoe, the medical specialist, was hired by the medical expert to announce that leaded gasoline was safe for humans one year later. The fact that it was used as an environmental catastrophe leading to a global lead contamination epidemic was not recognized until many decades ago.
Max D. Liston, one of Kettering's co-workers, called him "one of the greatest of the car industry, particularly from an artistic standpoint." "People will never know how many mistakes you've had, but they'll remember how it was the first time you tried it," 4 Liston said.": 7
Kettering and Deeds were involved in a lifetime of business, academic, and personal life. They founded the Engineers Club of Dayton and the Foreman's Club of Dayton, which later became the National Management Association, in 1914, realizing that Dayton was one of the country's top industrial cities due to the highly trained engineers and technicians.