Oral history interview with Claude Harvard September 13 and 17, 1990.

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Harvard, Claude, 1911-1999.

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Sorensen, Charles E., 1881-1968

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Grucz, Denise,

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Henry Ford Trade School

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Henry Ford believed that a working knowledge of industrial arts was the most practical knowledge a young man could have. To this end, Ford established several schools where he could offer a technical education that would prepare people for work in industry. His first and major trade school was begun in Highland Park, Michigan in 1916 adjacent to Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, opening with six boys and one instructor. Frederick E. Searle was appointed superintendent. Classes not only e...

Harvard, Claude, 1911-

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Claude Harvard was born in Dublin, Georgia in 1911 and moved to Detroit, Michigan when he was nine. At fifteen he was accepted into the Henry Ford Trade School at Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, where he became president of the school's radio club. At sixteen he became the first African American to earn an amateur radio operator license in Michigan and set up a station for the school. Harvard remained at Henry Ford Trade School for six years after graduating working on radio transmitte...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

Johansson, C. E. (Carl Edvard), 1864-1943

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Carl Edvard Johansson, Swedish inventor and scientist, was born March 15, 1864. In 1888, while employed as an armourer inspector by the state arsenal, he became interested in the tools used for measuring parts for the rifles being produced. He became convinced that an elaborate series of blocks could be devised for universal use. Johansson was granted his first Swedish patent, called "Gauge Block Sets for Precision Measurement", in 1901. By 1906, his gauges provided an accuracy approaching one t...

Harris, LeNeysa,

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