Herman T. Kraft

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Herman T. Kraft was an aero engineer at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. He started out as Ralph Hazlett Upson's assistant/mechanic[1] and went on to a long career of inventing. By February 1923 his title was chief aeronautical engineer.[2]

Published "A Goodyear Airship Type" in Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering (Vol. 6, p. 159; March 1, 1919).


Patents whose inventor or applicant is Herman T. Kraft

References

  1. Free Ballooning, 1919, p. 51.
  2. James M. Scott, "First 'Mother Ship' for Airplanes to Use Helium"; Popular Science, February 1923, p. 46.