| Dayton Inventions |
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| Without ever realizing it most you come into contact with a Dayton invention nearly every day. Driving to the store, picking up a six-pack of soft drink cans and buying it at the counter involves at least three Dayton inventions�the electric automobile starter, the pull-top can, and the cash register. Vincent C. Apple - Isolated Home and Farm Electric Lighting System John Balsley - Stepladder John Birden and Kenneth Jordan - Radio Isotopic Thermoelectric Generator for Spacecraft Frank Caldwell - Controllable Pitch Propeller Carl Carlson - Microfiche E. R. Churchwell - Collapsible Portable Crib Leland Clark - Human Heart-Lung Machine Luzern Custer - Motorized Wheelchairs Tom Edwards - Walker Attachment for Wheelchairs Ermal T. Fraze - Pull Tab and Pop Top Beverage Cans Arthur Frei - Ice Cube Tray with Ejector Mechanism Harvey Dunn Geyer - Automotive & Refrigeration Equipment Lt. Col. Roger Gounard - Smart Fan (operates based on changes in temperature) Barrett Green - Micro-Encapsulation Wayne Hardy - Goniometer (measures location of thalamus for surgery) Max Issacson - Manually Operated External Heart Machine and Expiratory Valve John Janning - Liquid Crystal Alignment Methodology C. Francis Jenkins - Movie Projector, Movie Camera, Movie Film and Movie Theatre Warren Kampf - Multiple Array Continuous Inkjet Printer Charles F. Kettering - Automobile Starter and over 300 other patents F. D. Klein - 100 Octane Aviation Fuel Fred Kohnle - Price Tag Affixing Machines Geoffrey Kruesi - Directional Compass with Dual Radio Beam Triangulation System Sidney Lambden - Flexible Radiator Hoses and Wire Impregnated Sweeper Hoses William Lear - Learmatic Electrostatic Gyroscope George H. Leland - Lighted Scoreboard, Leland Refractor E. F. McDonald - Solenoid William McHose - Incentive Stamps Thomas Midgely - Ethyl-Leaded Gasoline Dr. Sanford Moss - Airplane Supercharger Tom Payne - Official Building Mail Chutes Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky - Electrically Stimulated Ambulatory Motion James Ritty - Cash Register Daniel Webster Schaeffer - Gas Masks Henry Seeler - Portable Breathing Resuscitator Albert H. Smith - Computing Scale for Butchers and Grocers Floyd Smith - Parachute John P. Tytus - Continuous Rolling of Wide-Strip Steel Manufacturing Process Orville & Wilbur Wright - Airplane, Controls for Rudder, Elevator, Wing Lift Shape Other Dayton Inventions: Airplane Ejection Seats Fixed-Focus Headlights Artificial Heart Frost-proof freezer Artificial Kidney Fuzzbuster & Radar Detectors Automobile Air Bags Glass Photographic Negatives Bionic Organs Ice Cream Cone Blind Solo Flight Instant Blood-Glucose Level Testing Carbonless Copy Paper Laser Weapons Chrome Plating Liberty Engine Computerized Aircraft Loading System Night Serial Photography Double Glass Windows Nuclear Powered Pacemaker Electric Cash Register Quick Process Malleable Iron Filter Cigarettes Room Air Conditioner Other Famous Dayton People Literary: Erma Bombeck - National columnist/author Allen W. Eckert - Author - Historical/especially Tecumseh John Jakes - Author Clarence Page - Journalist Visual Arts: Chip Bok - Cartoonist Akron Beacon/natl. Milton Caniff - Cartoonist - "Terry and the Pirate" & "Steve Canyon" Nancy Cartwright - Voice of Bart Simpson Bing Davis - Local Artist, national exhibitor Cathy Guiseweit - Artist - Cathy cartoon Mark Henn - Disney artist - Pocahantas Mike Peters - National Cartoonist - Grimmy Coby Whitmore - Illustrator - Chicago Herald Entertainment: Phil Donahue - National Talk Show Host The Breeders Band - Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, Jim MacPherson Rick Derringer - Rock Musician Joe Eszterhas - Screenwriter - "Showgirls", "Basic Instinct" & "Jagged Edge" Dorian Harewood - Actor/Singer - "Roots" Allison Janney - Actress - The West Wing Gordon Jump - Actor - Maytag Man & "WKRP in Cincinnati" John Lithgow - Actor Rob Lowe - Actor Chad Lowe - Actor Roy Meriwether - Jazz Pianist Shirley Murdock - Singer Don Novello - Father Guido Sarducci of "Saturday Night Live" The Ohio Players - Soul/Funk Band Julia Reichert - Filmmaker Gary Sandy, Actor - "WKRP in Cincinnati" Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez), Actor Roger Troutman and Zapp, Musicians/Producers Ming Tsai, Chef - Food TV Jonathan Winters - Actor/Comedian Paul Laurence Dunbar - Famous African - American Poet Norman Vincent Peale - Evangelist & Morality Author Tyrone Power - Actor James Reston - N.Y. Times Journalist & Pulitzer Prive Winner Helen Hooven Santmyer - Author - "And the Ladies of the Club" |
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