Kettering Charles Francis (2 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Fransioli, Thomas Jr.; Rackow, Leo; Keller, Roswell;Darling, Gilbert; Chase, Francis; O'Halloran, Tom; Davis, Floyd; Grusstar,Gordon; (illustrator). First Edition. 78 pages. Articles: Get Off Route 25 - Charles F. Kettering teaches that a great challenge lies off the traveled highway; Young Man; The Life and Times of Sears, Roebuck (part 1 of 4); Collier's Sectional All-Star Teams; The King's Man - Charlie Campbell is considered a top unofficial 'ambassador' to the US; West from Fifth Avenue - article with sensational photos of Collier's new Manhattan headquarters and their million-a-day Ohio press; Payoff in Berlin (conclusion of "My 4-years war with the reds). Fiction: Cinderella Rides Again (part 1 of 5); The Ward Heeler and the Lady; Shooting Party; Don't You Cry for Me; Fifty of the Blue; Valley of the Tyrant. Includes these nice ads: Studebaker trucks (inside front cover); Bell telephone; Congress Playing Cards - featuring Mme. Lilly Dache; Zenith tvs, radios and phonographs; Columbia motorcycles; Good Year; Elgin watches; 1950 Ford cars; Samsonite luggate (color centerfold); Pall Mall cigarettes; Movie "Prince of Foxes"; New York Central Railroad; Schlitz beer; Blatz beer - featuring Pat Harder, 1948's most valuable player/star fullback of the Chicago Cardinals; Budweiser; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features Fred Astaire. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, December 3, 1949 Get Off Route 25 - Charles F. Kettering teaches that a great challenge lies off the traveled highway; Young Man; The Life and Times of Sears, Roebuck (part 1 of 4); Collier's Sectional All-Star Te.

Thick Octavo. After transferring to Ohio State University, Kettering had to withdraw because of eye problems. He recovered in 1904 with his degree in electrical engineering. (1943-1946) General Motors sponsored their Symphony of the Air with Arturo Toscanini's direction and Charles F. Kettering's radio talks (138 in this bound volume) which encouraged his radio audience to greater efforts during World War II. His opening introduction shows his admiration for early American inventors and though he never mentions himself, his talks show the wisdom. One of the most remarkable inventors, who from his invention of the electric cash register in 1906 with 23 patents to moving to the automobile industry where he invented the electric self-starter, freon the refrigerant, air-cooled engines, using tetraethyllead to prevent the knocking in the car engines who held 186 patents. Besides being awarded the Franklin Medal (1936), the Hoover Medal (1955), and the IEEE Edison Medal (1958). His invention in 1918 of the "aerial torpedo", nicknamed "the Kettering Bug" is considered the first of its type and led to the development of guided missiles. He was a founder of Delco and head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. A strong association copy with the stamped name of Louis D. Morin who held hundreds of patents on diecasting and molding machines. As a youth, he designed machinery for packaging Crackerjack and vending Coca-Cola. A few titles include: Patience; A Veterinarian "Shoes" the Horseless Carriage; Learning from Nature, Dots and Dashes and more. All bound together in red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, nearly all stories have a center crease which would indicate each part was folded to fit inside an envelope for sending out to customers.