Charles F Kettering
Charles Franklin Kettering
American
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCO-Light Company | |||
| NCR Corporation | 1909 | ||
| Delco Electronics Corp | 1909 | ||
| Dayton-Wright Company | 1917 |
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCO-Light Company | |||
| NCR Corporation | 1909 | ||
| Delco Electronics Corp | 1909 | ||
| Dayton-Wright Company | 1917 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | General Motors Research Laboratory | Detroit | |||||
| Significant name | Engineers Club of Dayton | Dayton, OH | |||||
| 1909/04/00 | William Chryst, William Anderson and Edward Deeds develop, under Kettering's leadership using his inventions, a massive improvement to the automobile ignition system. | Inventor | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | |||
| 1909/09/01 | Charles Kettering resigns from NCR and pursues his first ignition patent. | Work | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | |||
| 1911/06/05 | Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company files a US patent for an electric starter designed by Charles F Kettering, with Henry M Leland. Patent 1,150,523: Starting of engines by means of electric motors the motors being associated with current generators | Inventor | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | Invention of the Starter Motor | ||
| 1912/00/00 | According to city directories, Charles Kettering has an office at 329 E First Street. Col Edward Deeds is never listed in city directories as having an office in the Delco Building. | Office | Delco Building | Dayton, OH | |||
| 1913/00/00 | Charles Kettering begins developing a residential electrical system powered by a small generator primarily for people in rural areas that do not have access to larger utilities. | Inventor | |||||
| 1913/04/00 | Charles Kettering borrows a fire engine from the Ahrens-Fox Company of Cincinnati to pump water out of the Delco Building and hose down mud-caked equipment. Delco will return to limited production in less than three weeks. | Work | Delco Building | Dayton, OH | Great Flood of 1913 | ||
| 1914/00/00 | Home | Charles F Kettering House | Kettering | ||||
| 1917/11/00 | After meeting with George Squier and Edward Deeds, Kettering agrees to lead Project Liberty Eagle, the development a self-guided flying bomb for the Army. | Engineer | Kettering Aerial Torpedo | ||||
| 1920/00/00 | Charles Kettering is appointed vice president of the newly created General Motors Research Corporation where he will develop anti-knock gas and the diesel engine and work as the head of General Motors (GM) research until 1947. | Work |
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