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Gray, Ralph D. was born on October 13, 1933 in Otwell, Indiana, United States. Son of Lee M. and Voris R. (Gray) Gray.
(Originally published in 1979 and out of print for many ye...)
Originally published in 1979 and out of print for many years, Alloys and Automobiles: The Life of Elwood Haynes,the 2002 edition is now available. The author is Ralph D. Gray, Professor Emeritus of History, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana). The book is an interesting read that will hold your attention from beginning to end. It profiles the life of one of Kokomo’s outstanding citizens, Elwood Haynes (1857-1925), and, in so doing, gives the reader an insight into the exciting new industries that he helped create at the turn of the century that, in time, influenced the economic future of Kokomo, Indiana, as well as the nation. Best known as a pioneer in the automotive industry, building Indiana’s first, and the nation’s second, gasoline-powered automobile in 1894, Haynes also designed and supervised the laying of the first long-distance natural gas pipeline in the world during the Indiana gas boom of the 1880s and 1890s, developing methods of transporting natural gas that are still in use today. Primarily a metallurgist, his first love, he invented both Stellite, an enormously hard tool metal, and other alloys, most importantly, stainless steel, now commonly used daily throughout the world. Gray has captured the personality of Haynes, his life and times in an engaging yet well-documented work that would be welcomed in home libraries or research facilities.
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(B2-1918. History of this link between the Delaware River ...)
B2-1918. History of this link between the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay. Well preserved copy. xiv, 279 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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Gray, Ralph D. was born on October 13, 1933 in Otwell, Indiana, United States. Son of Lee M. and Voris R. (Gray) Gray.
Bachelor, Hanover College, Indiana, 1955. Master of Arts, University Delaware, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Illinois, 1962.
Instructor history, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1961-1964; assistant professor, Indiana U., Kokomo, 1964-1967; associate professor, Indiana U., Kokomo, 1967-1968; associate professor, Indiana U., Indianapolis, 1968-1972; professor, Indiana U., Indianapolis, since 1972. Director Conference History Jours., Richmond, Virginia, since 1989. Consultant Indiana Port Commission, Indianapolis, 1989-1990.
(Originally published in 1979 and out of print for many ye...)
(Originally published in 1979 and out of print for many ye...)
(Originally published in 1979 and out of print for many ye...)
(This is a record of struggle -- financial, legal, & polit...)
(B2-1918. History of this link between the Delaware River ...)
Delaware Indiana Democratic Convention, 1968. Member campaign committee Fadely for Congress, Indianapolis, 1990. Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Society for Historians Early American Republic (editor Journal Early Republic since 1981), Lexington Group (railroad historians), Indiana History Society (trustee since 1987), Society Indiana Pioneers, Canada Society Indiana, Indianapolis Civil War Roundtable, Indianapolis Literature Club (vice president 1980-1990).
Married Janice R. Everett, September 2, 1956 (widowed May 1993). Children: Karen Lynn, David Derek, Sarah Jane.