Haynes, Elwood
in American National Biography Online
January 1999; p ublished online February 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Metals, Alloying, and Corrosion; Engineering and Technology; Transport Technology and Trades; Transport. 1271 words.
Haynes, Elwood (14 October 1857–13 April 1925), inventor, metallurgist, and automobile manufacturer, was born in Portland, Indiana, the son of Jacob March Haynes, a judge and banker, and...
Sadler, James (bap. 1753, d. 1828), balloonist and chemist
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Metals, Alloying, and Corrosion; Transport Technology and Trades; Transport; Medicinal Chemistry. 1707 words.
Sadler, James (bap. 1753, d. 1828), balloonist and chemist, was born in Oxford and baptized there on 27 February 1753. He was the elder son of James Sadler (1718–1791), cook and...
Wills, Childe Harold
in American National Biography Online
January 1999; p ublished online February 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Metals, Alloying, and Corrosion; Transport Technology and Trades; Transport. 1775 words.
Wills, Childe Harold (01 June 1878–30 December 1940), metallurgist and automobile designer and manufacturer, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of John Carnegie Wills, a railroad...
