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He never knew the influence of a father and mother through the early years of his manhood. His father and mother, two brothers (?) and a sister, died within the same year when he was five years of age. Power, from a mechanical standpoint, was almost unknown in his boyhood. The axe and the saw, the anvil and the sledge were the most common tools in use. Where he is using the electric light today, in his youth he saw men using candles with care and caution, for they had to be made by hand at home.
He was born on a farm in Virginia, a few miles from Port Royal. He still owns the old homestead. In telling of its place in history he said, ‘Port Royal was once given consideration for the capital of the United States'. The farm has been in the family for more than 200 years. The house in which he was born, still standing, is 104 years old…..Mr. Cash never received a university, or even a high school education. His early education, behind a school desk, was received in a little country school near Macon, Illinois. The remainder of this schooling has been in the school of operative experience. He has a natural insight into the making of valves of many kinds which are needed to meet emergencies in industry. To this work he is devoting his time. He joined the First Baptist Church in Decatur on April 2, 1884...
Soon after he married Nellie in 1887, Arthur moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Arthur's interest in pressure-reducing valves began when, as a youth in New York, he was employed by a streetcar company which planned to operate by compressed air. The air compressed under high pressure in tanks had to be reduced before it could be supplied as power, and Arthur designed a valve for that purpose.
While in Connecticut, he worked for Foster Engineering. Over the next thirty or so years, he lived in various places, starting and selling companies.
Arthur achieved distinction as an inventor, numerous patents being granted him; e.g., the first typewriter that the letters could be seen as made, regulating valves for steam, gas, oil, and liquids used extensively by the U. S. Navy.
He was a nationally known inventor and founder of several manufacturing concerns including the two separate firms in Decatur which bore his name—A. W. Cash Company and A. W. Cash Valve Mfg. Corporation. He founded A. W. Cash Company in 1915, severed his connection with that firm in 1919,and formed the other Decatur firm that bore his name.
In 1938 he left Decatur and formed and worked at several other companies. At the time of his death, Arthur had been a consultant for the Mueller Company. Arthur was the oldest living member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering
He never knew the influence of a father and mother through the early years of his manhood. His father and mother, two brothers (?) and a sister, died within the same year when he was five years of age. Power, from a mechanical standpoint, was almost unknown in his boyhood. The axe and the saw, the anvil and the sledge were the most common tools in use. Where he is using the electric light today, in his youth he saw men using candles with care and caution, for they had to be made by hand at home.
He was born on a farm in Virginia, a few miles from Port Royal. He still owns the old homestead. In telling of its place in history he said, ‘Port Royal was once given consideration for the capital of the United States'. The farm has been in the family for more than 200 years. The house in which he was born, still standing, is 104 years old…..Mr. Cash never received a university, or even a high school education. His early education, behind a school desk, was received in a little country school near Macon, Illinois. The remainder of this schooling has been in the school of operative experience. He has a natural insight into the making of valves of many kinds which are needed to meet emergencies in industry. To this work he is devoting his time. He joined the First Baptist Church in Decatur on April 2, 1884...
Soon after he married Nellie in 1887, Arthur moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Arthur's interest in pressure-reducing valves began when, as a youth in New York, he was employed by a streetcar company which planned to operate by compressed air. The air compressed under high pressure in tanks had to be reduced before it could be supplied as power, and Arthur designed a valve for that purpose.
While in Connecticut, he worked for Foster Engineering. Over the next thirty or so years, he lived in various places, starting and selling companies.
Arthur achieved distinction as an inventor, numerous patents being granted him; e.g., the first typewriter that the letters could be seen as made, regulating valves for steam, gas, oil, and liquids used extensively by the U. S. Navy.
He was a nationally known inventor and founder of several manufacturing concerns including the two separate firms in Decatur which bore his name—A. W. Cash Company and A. W. Cash Valve Mfg. Corporation. He founded A. W. Cash Company in 1915, severed his connection with that firm in 1919,and formed the other Decatur firm that bore his name.
In 1938 he left Decatur and formed and worked at several other companies. At the time of his death, Arthur had been a consultant for the Mueller Company. Arthur was the oldest living member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering
Excerpts from newspaper articles:
He never knew the influence of a father and mother through the early years of his manhood. His father and mother, two brothers (?) and a sister, died within the same year when he was five years of age. Power, from a mechanical standpoint, was almost unknown in his boyhood. The axe and the saw, the anvil and the sledge were the most common tools in use. Where he is using the electric light today, in his youth he saw men using candles with care and caution, for they had to be made by hand at home.
He was born on a farm in Virginia, a few miles from Port Royal. He still owns the old homestead. In telling of its place in history he said, ‘Port Royal was once given consideration for the capital of the United States'. The farm has been in the family for more than 200 years. The house in which he was born, still standing, is 104 years old…..Mr. Cash never received a university, or even a high school education. His early education, behind a school desk, was received in a little country school near Macon, Illinois. The remainder of this schooling has been in the school of operative experience. He has a natural insight into the making of valves of many kinds which are needed to meet emergencies in industry. To this work he is devoting his time. He joined the First Baptist Church in Decatur on April 2, 1884...
Soon after he married Nellie in 1887, Arthur moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Arthur's interest in pressure-reducing valves began when, as a youth in New York, he was employed by a streetcar company which planned to operate by compressed air. The air compressed under high pressure in tanks had to be reduced before it could be supplied as power, and Arthur designed a valve for that purpose.
While in Connecticut, he worked for Foster Engineering. Over the next thirty or so years, he lived in various places, starting and selling companies.
Arthur achieved distinction as an inventor, numerous patents being granted him; e.g., the first typewriter that the letters could be seen as made, regulating valves for steam, gas, oil, and liquids used extensively by the U. S. Navy.
He was a nationally known inventor and founder of several manufacturing concerns including the two separate firms in Decatur which bore his name—A. W. Cash Company and A. W. Cash Valve Mfg. Corporation. He founded A. W. Cash Company in 1915, severed his connection with that firm in 1919,and formed the other Decatur firm that bore his name.
In 1938 he left Decatur and formed and worked at several other companies. At the time of his death, Arthur had been a consultant for the Mueller Company. Arthur was the oldest living member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering
He never knew the influence of a father and mother through the early years of his manhood. His father and mother, two brothers (?) and a sister, died within the same year when he was five years of age. Power, from a mechanical standpoint, was almost unknown in his boyhood. The axe and the saw, the anvil and the sledge were the most common tools in use. Where he is using the electric light today, in his youth he saw men using candles with care and caution, for they had to be made by hand at home.
He was born on a farm in Virginia, a few miles from Port Royal. He still owns the old homestead. In telling of its place in history he said, ‘Port Royal was once given consideration for the capital of the United States'. The farm has been in the family for more than 200 years. The house in which he was born, still standing, is 104 years old…..Mr. Cash never received a university, or even a high school education. His early education, behind a school desk, was received in a little country school near Macon, Illinois. The remainder of this schooling has been in the school of operative experience. He has a natural insight into the making of valves of many kinds which are needed to meet emergencies in industry. To this work he is devoting his time. He joined the First Baptist Church in Decatur on April 2, 1884...
Soon after he married Nellie in 1887, Arthur moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Arthur's interest in pressure-reducing valves began when, as a youth in New York, he was employed by a streetcar company which planned to operate by compressed air. The air compressed under high pressure in tanks had to be reduced before it could be supplied as power, and Arthur designed a valve for that purpose.
While in Connecticut, he worked for Foster Engineering. Over the next thirty or so years, he lived in various places, starting and selling companies.
Arthur achieved distinction as an inventor, numerous patents being granted him; e.g., the first typewriter that the letters could be seen as made, regulating valves for steam, gas, oil, and liquids used extensively by the U. S. Navy.
He was a nationally known inventor and founder of several manufacturing concerns including the two separate firms in Decatur which bore his name—A. W. Cash Company and A. W. Cash Valve Mfg. Corporation. He founded A. W. Cash Company in 1915, severed his connection with that firm in 1919,and formed the other Decatur firm that bore his name.
In 1938 he left Decatur and formed and worked at several other companies. At the time of his death, Arthur had been a consultant for the Mueller Company. Arthur was the oldest living member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering
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