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At Antioch College, the 1929 Science Building he donated [33] was not named after him (it is now the Arts and Science Building), [34] but the school's 33.000-square-foot Charles F. Kettering Building was (the same being originally a research facility, now home to campus radio station WYSO), [35] while the college's Olive Kettering Library was ...
Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering was the head of the GM Research Division in the 1930s. Boss Kettering oversaw the efforts that produced the Winton 201A, and the first engines produced under the Cleveland Diesel and Detroit Diesel names.
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At the time, one of Kettering's widely known inventions was the Delco-Light, a small internal combustion generator with battery intended to provide a source of electric illumination and mechanical power to rural residents (mostly farmers) who were yet to be connected to the nascent electrical grid system. [3]
The Charles F. Kettering House is located on Kettering's west side, on a hill overlooking the grounds of both Kettering College and Kettering Medical Center. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, originally designed by the Dayton firm of Schenck & Williams and built in 1914. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1995 and was rebuilt ...
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In 1906, while working at the National Cash Register company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor. [ 10 ] A leading designer, builder, manufacturer, seller and exporter of cash registers from the 1950s until the 1970s was London -based (and later Brighton -based [ 11 ] ) Gross Cash Registers Ltd., [ 12 ...
The free market did not support the expense of producing 100-octane aviation fuel in large volume, especially during the Great Depression. Iso-octane in the early development stage cost $7.9 per liter ($30/U.S. gal), and, even by 1934, it was still $0.53 per liter ($2/U.S. gal)compared to $0.048 ($0.18) for motor gasoline when the Army decided ...