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Title	Frank O. Clements Photograph
Subject	Military Ohio Science and Technology National Cash Register Company NCR Corporation
Place	Westerville (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio)
Description	This 8.5" by 11" (21.59 by 27.94 cm) image depicts Dr. Frank O. Clements. Clements graduated from Otterbein College, went on to be a graduate student and instructor at Ohio State University, and was employed by Pennsylvania Railroad and Union Pacific Railroads. In 1904 Charles Kettering (1876-1958) recommended that Dr. Clements be hired to organize a new chemical laboratory and test department at National Cash Register (NCR). At NCR Clements reported to founder and company president John Patterson. After inventing the self-starter for cars, Kettering started his own research laboratory in 1916 and asked Clements to organize the laboratory and serve as technical director. The lab focused on war endeavors such as developing superior plane fuel and the Kettering Bug, an unmanned radio-controlled flying bomb. After a pre-determined length of time, the wings would be released and the bomb would fall to strike the target with 180 pounds of explosives. Less than 50 were produced and none was completed in time to see action during World War I. Following the war the lab was taken over by General Motors and served as the nucleus of its research laboratory. Clements served as technical director until his retirement in 1939.
Date of Original	1960s circa
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Otterbein College
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2061_1832141_008
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2061_1832141_008.tif
Image Height	2957
Image Width	2365
File Size	540.478 KB

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