Philosophy
Joshua Lionel Cowen
August 25th, 1880 to September 8th, 1965
Joshua Lionel Cowen was an "American inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company."
Joshua Lionel Cowen [Wikipedia]
All Aboard: The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company
by
Ron Hollander
ISBN-10: 0761121331
ISBN-13: 978-0761121336
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Philosophy
The toy train man...Joshua Lionel Cowen
Joshua Lionel CowenAugust 25th, 1880 to September 8th, 1965
Joshua Lionel Cowen was an "American inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company."
Joshua Lionel Cowen [Wikipedia]
All Aboard: The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company by
Ron Hollander
ISBN-10: 0761121331
ISBN-13: 978-0761121336
- The President's Speech
I'm of the opinion, right or not, that anything said with a British accent automatically sounds more intelligent by virtue of that fact alone. Now, if the erudite King George VI of England, confronted by one of the most challenging circumstances of...
- Raymond Loewy--birthday
Some of us have no idea who Raymond Loewy was. Best said... industrial designer and probably best known for his design of the streamlined GG1 of the Pennsylvania Railroad. My youth longed for the model train engine but, alas, we had A. C. Gilbert's...
- Former "commodore", Lionel Richie, Gassed On Helium
In all fairness... Lionel Richie [Wikipedia] Lionel Richie's website...
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