Given Ankeny Brewer, born in 1913, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938 and worked at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation before joining Ford Motor Company's B-24 bomber program in July 1942 as a research engineer. Brewer was assigned to the Accelerated Service Test Branch at Wright Patterson Air Field near Dayton, Ohio. While there Brewer rose to become Assistant Chief of Structures and supervised research and production testing in various areas of Ford's aeronautical engineering program including structural research and design, mass production techniques and disposition and salvage of test materials. Brewer left Ford in December 1943 and started his own engineering testing company, Brewer Laboratories, in 1950. In 1983, Brewer sold his company to Teledyne Engineering in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1989, in memory of his lifelong work in experimental engineering, Teledyne Engineering Services established the Brewer Award, which is awarded to members of the Society for Experimental Mechanics for outstanding work in experimental test analysis.
From the description of Given Ankeny Brewer papers, 1942-1943. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 53876061
