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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive developments were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline.

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business · American inventor, engineer and businessman (1876–1958) · engineer · inventor · entrepreneur · also Charles F. Kettering, Charles Franklin Kettering, Kettering

Born 29 August 1876 · Died 25 November 1958 · Q959123

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1980).
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Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1979).
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1998· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1998Documented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

The former General Motors Institute changed its name to Kettering University to honor Kettering as a founder

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Charles F. Kettering

GMI Engineering and Management Institute (formerly General Motors Institute), of Flint, Michigan, changed its name to Kettering University in honor of Kettering

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1980· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1980Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1980).

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1979· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1979Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1979).

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1958· 14 entries

Nov 25, 1958Documented record86% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Died 1958-11-25.

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Jun 15, 1958Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Won Edison Medal (1958).

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c. 1958Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote67% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.”

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“You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”

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“I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious.”

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Charles F. Kettering

“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”

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1955· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1955Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Won Hoover Medal (1955).

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1947· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1947Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1947).

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Helped found what became the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, based on the premise that American industrial research techniques could be applied to cancer research

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1944· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1944Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Won John Fritz Medal (1944).

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1940· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1940Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Won ASME Medal (1940).

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1940Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

A position that he held until his death in 1958

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1936· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Won Franklin Medal (1936).

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Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Awarded John Scott Award (1936).

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Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Awarded Washington Award (1936).

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1930· 1 entry

1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Which was acquired by General Motors and was eventually incorporated into the General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

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1927· 1 entry

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Founded the Kettering Foundation and was featured on the cover of Time magazine in January 1933

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1918· 1 entry

1918Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Kettering designed the "aerial torpedo", nicknamed the Kettering Bug

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1914· 2 entries

1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Recognizing that Dayton was among the leading industrial cities in the US because of the skilled engineers and technicians in the city, they founded the Engineers Club of Dayton and the Foreman's Club of Dayton, which la

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1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Flxible Sidecar Company was incorporated with the help of Kettering, who then became president of the company and joined the board of directors

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1909· 1 entry

1909Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Kettering resigned from NCR to work full-time on automotive developments, and the group incorporated as Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, or Delco

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1908· 1 entry

1908Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Their only child, Eugene Williams Kettering, was born on April 20, 1908.

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1906· 1 entry

1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Which made ringing up sales physically much easier for sales clerks

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1904· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1904Documented record84% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Studied at Ohio State University, Bachelor of Science (1904).

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1876· 1 entry

Aug 29, 1876Documented record86% confidence

Charles F. Kettering

Born 1876-08-29.

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Jun 1958Award

Won Edison Medal (1958).

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Jun 1955Award

Won Hoover Medal (1955).

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Jun 1947Award

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1947).

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Jun 1944Award

Won John Fritz Medal (1944).

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