Lanterna Rally

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: Booksllc.Net

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781230803647

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Aircraft maintenance technician, Albert F. Woller, Automotive Technician Accreditation, Aviation Structural Mechanic, Bicycle mechanic, Carl Long, Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award, Charlie Taylor (mechanic), Construction Mechanic (US Navy), Dudley Laws, Elevator mechanic, Engie Benjy, Ermenegildo Gasperoni, Ern Garami, Erv Kanemoto, Harry Hartz, Instrument mechanic, Joseph Carr, Ken Wright (auto racing mechanic), Leon D. Cuddeback, Miguelito Valdes, Nigel Stepney, Ross Winans, Thomas Bell (novelist), Tom Barrett (riding mechanic), Walter Chrysler. Excerpt: Ross Winans (1796-1877) was an American inventor, mechanic, and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery. He is also noted for design of pioneering cigar-hulled ships. Winans, one of the United States' first multi-millionaires, was involved in politics and was a vehement states' rights advocate. His outspoken anti-federal stance as a member of the Maryland legislature led to his arrest during the early period of the American Civil War. Winans was related to James McNeill Whistler through marriage (Whistler's brother George married Winans' daughter Julia). Ross Winans was born in Vernon Township, New Jersey on October 17, 1796. His parents were William and Mary Winans. He married Julia de Kay (1800-1850) in 1820 and they had five children. He moved his family to Baltimore, Maryland in the late 1820s and did business with the newly-founded Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). Following the death of his wife Juila in 1850, he married Elizabeth K. West (1807-1889) in 1854. Winans came from a New Jersey family of horse breeders, but successfully made the transition to other forms of motive power. In 1828 he developed a friction wheel with outside bearings which established a distinctive pattern for railroad wheels for the next one hundred years or so. In...