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Boss Kettering / Stuart W. Leslie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231905060
  • 9780231879088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 620.00924 19/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Early Years -- 2. The Cash -- 3. The Delco Years -- 4. World War I -- 5. Joining General Motors -- 6. The Copper-Cooled Engine -- 7. Studying the Knocks -- 8. Keeping the Customer Dissatisfied -- 9. The Challenges of Management -- 10. The Diesel and the Depression -- 11. Some Biological Diversions -- 12. World War II -- 13. The Last Hero -- Notes -- Index
Summary: A biography of Charles F. Kettering, an American inventor and engineer, from his early life through his career with General Motors and to his election as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231879088

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Early Years -- 2. The Cash -- 3. The Delco Years -- 4. World War I -- 5. Joining General Motors -- 6. The Copper-Cooled Engine -- 7. Studying the Knocks -- 8. Keeping the Customer Dissatisfied -- 9. The Challenges of Management -- 10. The Diesel and the Depression -- 11. Some Biological Diversions -- 12. World War II -- 13. The Last Hero -- Notes -- Index

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A biography of Charles F. Kettering, an American inventor and engineer, from his early life through his career with General Motors and to his election as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)