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Ingenuity In A Can: The Ralph Stolle Story
Ingenuity In A Can The Ralph Stolle Story Author:Geoffrey Williams He was industry's invisible man, quietly penetrating a crowded room, tinkering with what society found useful, then shuffling away unnoticed, an entrepreneurial apparition.Ralph couldn't help but live a life that turned a hardscrabble kid from Northern, KY into a Lebanon, OH, businessman and power player. His career took him to the heights of th... more »e Empire State Building, and into every home in America where he improved refrigerators, stoves, washing machines--even the automobile in the driveway. He fought to eradicate cancer with his immune milk, a battle that one of his former businesses is still waging. But perhaps his most enduring achievement was how Ralph forever changed pop culture--soda pop culture, anyway--when his business created the method for manufacturing the easy open and pull tab, a seemingly mundane device but an engineering feat.Geoff Williams renders a tale of a man who will inspire entrepreneurs of all interests and ages. It is a story of an entrepreneur, a visionary, a husband, a father, a friend to the downtrodden and desperate, but above all, a dreamer.« less