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Ralph Teetor (August 17, 1890 – February 15, 1982) was a prolific inventor who invented cruise control. He was the longtime president of the automotive parts manufacturer The Perfect Circle Co. (acquired in 1963 by Dana Holding Corporation , then sold to Mahle GmbH in 2007) in Hagerstown, Indiana , a manufacturer of piston rings .
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The Automotive Hall of Fame was founded on October 18, 1939, in New York City by a group called the "Automobile Old Timers." [4] Its original mission was to perpetuate the memories of early automotive pioneers and to honor people from all parts of the auto industry worldwide.
Established in 1963, the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award honors educators who are preparing engineers for their careers. It is the major program of the Ralph Teetor Educational Fund of SAE International .
John Jacob Astor IV – millionaire businessman, real estate developer, inventor, writer and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War [112] William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor – financier and statesman; Ralph Baer – father of the home video game console; John Jacob Bausch – optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb [115]
Bell was awarded the Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph Teetor Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research and Teaching in 1988. He was presented the T. Morris Hackney Faculty Leadership Award for the UA College of Engineering in 2001, and, in 2005, he received the Richard S. Woodbury Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. 1804: Thomas Young: Wave theory of light, Vision and color theory: 1808: Atomic theory by John Dalton: 1816: English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph. 1820: Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a ...
Vice President of Brigham Young University, Administrator of all Latter Day Saint seminaries, institutes and schools other than Brigham Young University [151] Donald Richard Theophilus: Gamma Nu (Honorary) President of the University of Idaho (1954–1965) [152] Ralph Tirey: Beta Lambda Advisor President of Indiana State University (1933–1953 ...