KETTERING: Master Inventor

by Sigmund A. Lavine ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 4, 1960

This is the story of a dreamy Ohio school boy who could not excel at his studies, tired from arduous farm work, limited by his somewhat poor vision. This is the story of a man who not only became a classics scholar but one of the most influential inventors of the century. Charles Kettering, inventor of the internal combustion engine, considered himself to be nothing but a grease monkey. Yet so significant was his work that he became not only a respected member of the world of science, but was also put in a position of great authority by industry, and in 1917 became president and general manager of the General Motors Research Corporation. An informal and interesting biography of particular interest to mechanically-minded readers, Kettering emerges here as an inventor of outstanding consequence and a human being of unusually high calibre.

Pub Date: April 4, 1960

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Dodd, Mead

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION