Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2152

Pencil notes in a small, black pocket-size notebook containing dates of 1935-1936

Original is in item 2139.

Dear Mr. Ricker — /?/

 Per your request, high spots in my career have been:

1. Getting born at Vienna, Virginia in 1876.
2. After High School, taking Engineering instruction at    Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian (now George    Washington) University.
3. Designing automobile engines for Hartley Motor Company and hydraulic machinery for Crane Company, Chicago.
4. Research work /in the/ Experimental Department of Western   Electric Co., Chicago.
5. Office Engineering work in connection with depots for   coal(3 years) Navy Department, Washington D.C.
6. Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at National University School of Law, Washington, D.C.
7. Admission to bar of Superior Court _________.
8. Development of Theory and Design of Aeronautical          Propellers.
9. General Manager and Consulting Engineer Gyro Motor              Company (Aeronautical Engines).
10. Founding of American Propeller & Mfg. Co. and ________
11. Membership in various engineering societies.
12. Extensive Manufacture of propellers and other                   aeroplane ___________ during World War with              commendation by US Signal Corps.
13. Sale of U.S. and foreign patents and all business               interests.
14. Research Engineer for Bendix Aviation Company.
15. Independent Horticultural research and experiments in            plant propagation.
16. Study of advanced botany, biology, political economy         and general sociology.
17.    Research on Society as a form of organized life with        government as one of its organs.