Roy Jerome Meyers was the son of Charles Morton Smith and Alzoa Amy Minkler. He changed his name to Meyers as a young man. He was born in Edgewood, Iowa. His father died when he was 11 and he went to work to support his family. A few years later his sister died. Roy hit the road and made some bad mistakes. He was socially inept and didn't choose good company. But he married a good woman, Carrie Weller, and she stuck with him through thick and thin. He worked hard all his life.
Roy became well known in 1912 as the "convict inventor" and again in 1931-32 as the most highly publicized compressed air car inventor of the 1930s. In 1912 he was befriended by the first governor of the new state of Arizona who gave him a job in a nearby town. The state legislators paid out of their own pockets for him to take his first invention to the patent office in Washington DC.
Roy was a professional machinist, and a self-taught electrician and mechanic. He also worked as a chauffeur. During his life he lived in Northern California, Southern California, New Orleans, Nebraska, and Arizona. He also lived briefly in other places including Alaska, Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City.
Dorothy S (Meyers) Weitz is his daughter. She is buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
His last patent was granted a few weeks after his death. It was for a merry-go-round powered by a teeter-totter.
Roy became well known in 1912 as the "convict inventor" and again in 1931-32 as the most highly publicized compressed air car inventor of the 1930s. In 1912 he was befriended by the first governor of the new state of Arizona who gave him a job in a nearby town. The state legislators paid out of their own pockets for him to take his first invention to the patent office in Washington DC.
Roy was a professional machinist, and a self-taught electrician and mechanic. He also worked as a chauffeur. During his life he lived in Northern California, Southern California, New Orleans, Nebraska, and Arizona. He also lived briefly in other places including Alaska, Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City.
Dorothy S (Meyers) Weitz is his daughter. She is buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
His last patent was granted a few weeks after his death. It was for a merry-go-round powered by a teeter-totter.
Roy Jerome Meyers was the son of Charles Morton Smith and Alzoa Amy Minkler. He changed his name to Meyers as a young man. He was born in Edgewood, Iowa. His father died when he was 11 and he went to work to support his family. A few years later his sister died. Roy hit the road and made some bad mistakes. He was socially inept and didn't choose good company. But he married a good woman, Carrie Weller, and she stuck with him through thick and thin. He worked hard all his life.
Roy became well known in 1912 as the "convict inventor" and again in 1931-32 as the most highly publicized compressed air car inventor of the 1930s. In 1912 he was befriended by the first governor of the new state of Arizona who gave him a job in a nearby town. The state legislators paid out of their own pockets for him to take his first invention to the patent office in Washington DC.
Roy was a professional machinist, and a self-taught electrician and mechanic. He also worked as a chauffeur. During his life he lived in Northern California, Southern California, New Orleans, Nebraska, and Arizona. He also lived briefly in other places including Alaska, Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City.
Dorothy S (Meyers) Weitz is his daughter. She is buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
His last patent was granted a few weeks after his death. It was for a merry-go-round powered by a teeter-totter.
Roy became well known in 1912 as the "convict inventor" and again in 1931-32 as the most highly publicized compressed air car inventor of the 1930s. In 1912 he was befriended by the first governor of the new state of Arizona who gave him a job in a nearby town. The state legislators paid out of their own pockets for him to take his first invention to the patent office in Washington DC.
Roy was a professional machinist, and a self-taught electrician and mechanic. He also worked as a chauffeur. During his life he lived in Northern California, Southern California, New Orleans, Nebraska, and Arizona. He also lived briefly in other places including Alaska, Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City.
Dorothy S (Meyers) Weitz is his daughter. She is buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
His last patent was granted a few weeks after his death. It was for a merry-go-round powered by a teeter-totter.
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