Timeline

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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