9/25/2023 0 Comments 2nd and charles dayton![]() ![]() In 1925 a cozy Barber Shop was installed upstairs off the Loggia porch, overlooking the McCook Airfield across the river. Along with Deed’s leadership, this interchange of aviators and engineers may have helped foster McCook as the Army’s chief R&D center for aviation, later to shift to nearby WPAFB. The Club served unofficially as the initial “Officers Club” for McCook’s Army Air Corps officers. This was fortuitous since he also later flew under the Main Street bridge…upside down! Harris, became the first to use a parachute successfully, landing in a grape arbor in North Dayton. Directly across the river McCook Field became the first military aviation test field. RiverScape demonstrates the hydraulic jump in the fountain that falls down the levee from Festival Plaza to the harbor.Aviation also found a pioneering home near the club. This technology is still used in hydrological engineering throughout the world. From there, the water flows downstream calmly. This process of turning water onto itself is the hydraulic jump. They developed the hydraulic jump, which sends water through a series of baffles and steps, and then finally into a low wall that forces the water back onto itself, dissipating its own energy. Edward Deeds to Deeds’ farm in Moraine, where they built models in his swimming pool. To solve that problem, Morgan went with Col. The problem was that the speed of the water through the dam made it powerful and destructive. One element of this system was a dry dam-a dam that held water only during a flood and released the water at a rate that the downstream riverbed could carry. Morgan came to Dayton after the 1913 flood to design a flood control system to protect the entire Miami Valley. “My car isn’t that color,” the man replied. When they emerged from the restaurant the man couldn’t find his car. Kettering developed a paint that would dry in a few minutes, but he still had to convince General Motors it would work. The process took more than a month and that was too long. One story that reveals Kettering’s ingenuity as well as his sense of humor involved painting new cars. The pavilion also includes some of Kettering’s clever quotes, for which he was famous. A pavilion commemorates the starter at the west end of RiverScape. Kettering’s automatic starter ended the pain of starting cars with the turn of a key introduced on the 1912 Cadillac. Prior to Kettering’s invention, drivers frequently broke their arms crank-starting their cars. Apple holds the record for the greatest number of patents in Dayton at 350. Kettering led the automotive world in innovation for decades and was a prolific inventor. Information taken from The Grand Eccentrics, Mark Bernstein, 1996. These stories include that of Joe Desch, who cracked the German “Enigma” code and put the Allies on course for victory in World War II, as well as the origins of cellophane, digital watches, recycled newsprint, Freon and “Star Wars” technology. The brick medallions continue down Monument Avenue and Patterson Boulevard leading the way along the walk and telling the stories of other Dayton inventors. ![]() So it wasn’t these famous sons who spawned a climate of innovation in Dayton as many assume but perhaps it was the climate of innovation already existing in Dayton that spawned our famous sons and some of the world’s most revered inventors.ĭayton has scores more stories of innovation to tell. This acclaim was first achieved, not in the wondrous years of the Wright Brothers and Charles F. This medallion claims Dayton to be the Innovation Capital of the World, by virtue of the fact that Dayton, throughout much of its history, has had more inventions per capita than any city in the United States. The River Walk begins at the northeast corner of Main Street and Monument Avenue with an 8-inch by 8-inch brick medallion in the pavement. The Invention Stations are whimsical, interactive public art pieces that serve to keep things interesting in between activities such as ice skating in the winter or renting bikes in the summer for downtown denizens out for a day in the great urban outdoors. Make sure to take time to examine the brick tiles throughout the Dayton Inventors River Walk - you’ll be amazed! ![]() Taking a casual walk down the park’s esplanade will bring you to seven over-sized sculptures, called Invention Stations, and more than 150 brick tiles commemorating innovations dreamed up right here in the Miami Valley that have forever changed our world. The Dayton Inventors River Walk at RiverScape MetroPark celebrates Dayton’s history of invention, against a backdrop of sweeping views of the Great Miami River. ![]()
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