Frederick B. Rentschler
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United Technologies Corporation
Pratt & Whitney originated as the creation of the businessman Frederick B. Rentschler. In 1925 the machine-tool maker Pratt and Whitney provided Rentschler with start-up funds, idle plant space, and a company name to create an aircraft engine manufacturer. The new company’s air-cooled Wasp radial piston engine, completed by the end of that year, proved far superior to the water-cooled...
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