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    Clessie Lyle Cummins (December 27, 1888 – August 17, 1968) was the founder of the Cummins Engine Co. He was an entrepreneur who improved on existing diesel...
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    approximately 7,200 dealers. The Cummins Engine Company was founded in Columbus, Indiana on February 3, 1919, by mechanic Clessie Cummins and banker William Glanton...
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    compressed gas trapped in the cylinders, and slowing the vehicle. Clessie Cummins was granted a patent for the engine compression brake in 1965, and...
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    Kate Bruce, silent-film actress Clessie Cummins, inventor, mechanic, salesman, and founder of engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc. William H. Donner, businessman...
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    Press, ISBN 978-0-917308-03-1. (C. Lyle Cummins, Jr. was the son of Clessie Cummins, founder of the Cummins Company). Grosser, Morton (1978), Diesel:...
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  • Jacobs Vehicle Systems (category Cummins)
    was experienced by inventor Clessie Cummins. In August 1931, Clessie Cummins, Ford Moyer and Dave Evans driving a Cummins diesel powered Indiana truck...
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  • Christopher C. Cummins, an American chemist currently the Henry Dreyfus Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clessie Cummins (1888–1968),...
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    two-stroke engine, suitable for road vehicles and marine use. 1946: Clessie Cummins obtains a patent on a fuel feeding and injection apparatus for oil-burning...
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  • Research – Seymour Cray Crumpler – Stuart Crumpler (co-founder) CumminsClessie Cummins Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (to Curtiss-Wright) – Glenn...
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  • India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. 1930 – Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven...
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