Elwood Haynes (Haynes Elwood)( Pioneer of the American automobile industry.)
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Biography Elwood Haynes (Haynes Elwood)
(1857-1925) Born October 14, 1857 in Portland (pc. Indiana). He graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University. Taught at Portland, Portland was the manager of the company 'Necherel Gas & Oil'. In 1893-1894 designed, built and successfully tested in Kokomo (pc. Indiana), the first 'horseless carriage' - a car with a one-cylinder engine power 1 hp, speeds of up to 10 km / h. The car was shown at the exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington). Along with his brothers founded the company Appersonami 'Haynes - Apperson', which in 1898 launched a vehicle. In 1903 invented a gas engine with rotary valve. Haynes - inventor of many alloys, including chromium steels (hromovolframovoy, chromium-nickel, hromokobaltovoy) in 1911, he invented and patented in 1919 stainless steel. In 1910 he created a stellite alloy with additions of cobalt, chromium and tungsten, has found wide application in the manufacture of high-speed cutting tool. Haynes died in Kokomo (pc. Indiana), April 13, 1925.
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