Christine Pittsley, Project Director for the Remembering World War One community archiving project at the Connecticut State Library, explored the role Connecticut played leading up to the war, what was happening on the home front while our soldiers fought in the trenches, stories of local contributions to the war effort, and how Connecticut commemorated the war. Christine At The Russell Library On Middletown in the Battle Of Seicheprey:
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World War I Veteran Frederick Rentschler And Donald Brown Start Pratt and Whitney: Donald Lamont Brown born in 1890 after attending Northwestern University, he started his aviation career as head of engine assembly at the Simplex Automobile Company, which later evolved into the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation. He later became a factory manager for Wright Aeronautical Corporation (formerly Wright-Martin) were he met Frederick Rentschler
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Frederick Rentschler entered World War I in 1917, he joined the United States Army. As a First Lieutenant and later Captain, he was assigned to inspect Hispano-Suiza aircraft engines manufactured under French license at the Wright-Martin plant in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The armistice of November 11, 1918, ended the contract and caused the reorganization of Wright-Martin.
Rentschler became president of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and pressed for research into his idea. Unable to convince his board of directors, largely composed of investment bankers with little aviation knowledge, he resigned in 1924, and supported by old friend and Wright chief engineer George J. Mead, he developed a proposal for a high-powered air-cooled aircraft engine for the U.S. Navy. Click Below To Learn More:
