Who Was Charles Kettering?

Joseph Liebreich
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
4 min readFeb 3, 2021

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American entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist

Picture via lemelson.mit.edu

Yes. He’s the Kettering whose name is on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centers in and around New York City. Charles Franklin Kettering is considered one of the greatest inventors in American history, but he was much more than that. He was an entrepreneur, engineer, businessman and philanthropist.

Early achievements

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