Richard Ten Eyck
Richard Ten Eyck (1920January 1, 2009) was an American industrial designer noted for his airplane designs for Cessna, Beechcraft, and Bell Helicopter (now Bell Textron). He is perhaps best known for his design of electric fans for Vornado Air Vornado is an American firm based in Andover, Kansas, that designs and manufactures household fans and other small appliances related to air circulation. The current incarnation of the company was founded in 1989, two years after the death of Ralp ... during the 1940s and 50s. Ten Eyck was born in Marseilles, Illinois in 1920 and from 1938 to 1939 he studied industrial design at the University of Illinois. He later worked on product designs for aircraft, farm machinery, and consumer items, including Westinghouse air conditioners and products for the department store Montgomery Ward. He started his own firm, RTA in Wichita, KS in 1948. Ten Eyck recounted that in addition to redesigning items to make them more functional, ergonomic, and ...
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Vornado
Vornado may refer to: *Vornado Realty Trust, an American real estate investment company *Vornado Air, American manufacturer of household electric fans etc. *15 Penn Plaza, New York City, also known as the Vornado Tower, a proposed skyscraper {{disambig ...
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