Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting Charles F. Kettering with a Buick automobile, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Kettering is credited with inventing the electric ignition and self-starter for the automobile. He was one of the founders of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, which became the Delco Products Division of General Motors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01161
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Automotive technology; Automobile industry; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photography--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: Perkins Observatory, affiliated with Ohio Wesleyan University was completed in 1931, is located in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00336
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: An unidentified young man sitting in a homemade, 2-cylinder automobile. The name "Havoline" appears twice on the car, referring to a company that still produces automotive maintenance products. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07773
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Automobiles--Ohio--History; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: A large group looking at two men in a Model T. Information with the photograph indicates that one of the two men is named Burkhart. The location is most likely in front of the Wyandot County Courthouse in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07781
Subjects: Automobiles--Ohio--History; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Historic buildings--Ohio;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: People posing in front of a steam threshing machine and a water wagon. Based on the photograph description the machine belonged to "The Leader" line of steam machines. Leader equipment was produced by The Marion Manufacturing Company, one of the two early steam engine companies based in Marion, Ohio, in the 1880s. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07787
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Machinery industry--Ohio; Marion (Ohio); Farm equipment; Farming;
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait of inventor Orville Wright from Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900-1910. Orville and his brother Wilbur built and flew the first mechanically powered airplane. Orville was born on August 19, 1971 in Dayton, Ohio and died at age 76 on January 30, 1948 in Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02665
Subjects: Montgomery County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Inventors--Ohio
 

Description: Fire engine and crew, possibly in Blanchester, Clinton County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06002
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Horse-drawn vehicles--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio; Equipment; Buildings; Clothing & dress
Places: Blanchester (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A handcolored postcard of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Observatory, ca. 1910 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06017
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Observatories; Universities and colleges Ohio; Schools--Ohio;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Charles M. Hall (1863-1914), ca. 1890. A graduate of Oberlin College, Hall discovered the electrolytic method of producing aluminum cheaply for commercial use in 1886. He began working for the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, later known as the Aluminum Company of America, and became vice president in 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03886
Subjects: Oberlin College; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Inventors--Ohio
 

Description: Benjamin Garver Lamme (1864-1924) was born near Springfield, Ohio, and graduated from The Ohio State University in 1888. He spent most of his life working for the Westinghouse Electric Company as an inventor and a developer of electrical machinery. He pioneered the design of rotary converters, developed direct current railway motors, and produced the first commercially successful induction motor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03913
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Inventors--Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A group of test pilots for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Columbus, Ohio on the flight line, ca. 1940 - 1945. The Columbus plant was established in 1940 when the Curtiss-Wright Corporation expanded to meet the increased demand for military aircraft during World War II. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00703
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Young man identified as Grover Fisher making a propeller for the first airplane in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to be displayed at the local fair. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07776
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Aviation--History; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)