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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Signature. Alexander Winton (June 20, 1860 – June 21, 1932) was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver. Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, making the city an ...
Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a type of two-way traffic light, [1] and a protective 'smoke hood' [2] notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. [3] [4] Morgan also discovered and developed a chemical ...
Irving I. Gottesman (psychologist, behavioral geneticist) (Cleveland) Charles Martin Hall (inventor, engineer) (Thompson) Samuel Dana Horton (monetary theorist) Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer) (Loudonville) Thomas Kuhn (philosopher of science) (Cincinnati) Arthur Laffer (supply-side economist) (Youngstown)
The written history of Cleveland began with the city's founding by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Its central location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River allowed it to become a major center for Great Lakes trade in northern Ohio in the early 19th century.
Viktor Schreckengost. Viktor Schreckengost (June 26, 1906 – January 26, 2008) was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback. Schreckengost's peers included designers Raymond Loewy ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of Atlantic Records. After a long search for the right city, Cleveland was chosen in 1986 as the Hall of Fame's permanent home. Architect I. M. Pei designed the new museum, and it was dedicated on September 1, 1995.
James Cotton, football player. Franklin Cover, actor. Delbert Cowsette, football player. Wes Craven, film director. George Washington Crile, co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic, gave first successful blood transfusion. George Washington Crile Jr., surgeon. George Washington Crile III, CBS news, journalist and producer.
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind powered sawmill. Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding. Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle. Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera.