Description:Chapters: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin, Julius Kiesner, Shojiro Ishibashi, R. P. Goenka, Chuck Barnes, Marco Tronchetti Provera. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century. Firestone was born in his family's farm house on December 20, 1868, in the small town of Columbiana, Ohio, the second of three children, to Benjamin Firestone, a farmer, and A. Catherine Flickinger. The Firestone ancestors were German immigrants named Feuerstein. The farmhouse where Firestone was born is now located in Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI), a 90-acre (360,000 m) historical site founded by Henry Ford. After graduating from Columbiana High School, Firestone worked for the Columbus Buggy Company in Columbus, Ohio before starting his own company in 1890, making rubber tires for carriages. In 1895 he married Idabelle Smith, a composer and songwriter. They had six children: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Russell Allen Firestone, Leonard Firestone, Raymond Firestone, Roger Stanley Firestone, and Elizabeth Firestone. In 1904 Firestone joined Henry Ford to make rubber tires for the newly popular automobiles. The Ford-Firestone corporate marriage was later cemented when Henry's grandson William Clay Ford wed Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey, who then became parents of former Ford Motor Company Chairman, William Clay Ford, Jr. Firestone in 1931In 1938, Firestone died peacefully at his vacation home in Miami Beach, Florida at the age of 69. Henr...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=28488We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tire Industry Biographies: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'Neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin. To get started finding Tire Industry Biographies: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'Neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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36
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2010
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1157222552
Tire Industry Biographies: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'Neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin
Description: Chapters: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin, Julius Kiesner, Shojiro Ishibashi, R. P. Goenka, Chuck Barnes, Marco Tronchetti Provera. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century. Firestone was born in his family's farm house on December 20, 1868, in the small town of Columbiana, Ohio, the second of three children, to Benjamin Firestone, a farmer, and A. Catherine Flickinger. The Firestone ancestors were German immigrants named Feuerstein. The farmhouse where Firestone was born is now located in Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI), a 90-acre (360,000 m) historical site founded by Henry Ford. After graduating from Columbiana High School, Firestone worked for the Columbus Buggy Company in Columbus, Ohio before starting his own company in 1890, making rubber tires for carriages. In 1895 he married Idabelle Smith, a composer and songwriter. They had six children: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Russell Allen Firestone, Leonard Firestone, Raymond Firestone, Roger Stanley Firestone, and Elizabeth Firestone. In 1904 Firestone joined Henry Ford to make rubber tires for the newly popular automobiles. The Ford-Firestone corporate marriage was later cemented when Henry's grandson William Clay Ford wed Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey, who then became parents of former Ford Motor Company Chairman, William Clay Ford, Jr. Firestone in 1931In 1938, Firestone died peacefully at his vacation home in Miami Beach, Florida at the age of 69. Henr...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=28488We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tire Industry Biographies: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'Neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin. To get started finding Tire Industry Biographies: Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank Seiberling, John Boyd Dunlop, Thomas F. O'Neil, Wolfgang Reitzle, Edouard Michelin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.