词条 | Jesse Besser |
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BiographyJesse Besser was born in metropolitan Buffalo, New York in 1882; his parents moved him when he was age 1 to what was then the North American frontier in Montmorency County, Michigan. Besser grew up on the outskirts of the lumber business, helping his father Herman Besser operate a small mill that shaved timber scantlings into shingles and barrel staves. As old-growth timber vanished from northeastern Michigan, the senior Besser parlayed his assets into a substantial equity share in a local cement mill. After leaving high school, young Besser quickly acquired a working knowledge of cement, concrete, and what were then the un-perfected and balky hand-operated machines used to tamp wet, flexible concrete into solid shapes. He invented his first improvements to his mill shop's concrete-block tamper in 1904, and further improvements created a machine capable of making 200 rectangular blocks during what was then a standard 10-hour working day. Repeatedly applying simple principles of power transport and automation, Jesse Besser and his engineering aides steadily improved their concrete-block-producing tamper machines. By 1954, fifty years after the 1904 device, the machines of the Besser Company's lineup could produce 10,000 blocks during a 10-hour period—a productivity improvement of 8.1%/year. Jesse Besser retired during a two-year period, 1964–1965. In 1964 the Besser Foundation granted an endowment to what was then the Jesse Besser Museum to construct a general-purpose community museum for the eastern half of Northern Michigan. Besser bequeathed his remaining management roles in the Besser Company to nephew Philip Park in 1965, and died on May 3, 1970.[1] References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.bessermuseum.org/#!about-us/cknw |title=Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan: About us |publisher=Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan |accessdate=2016-02-27 |format=}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Besser, Jesse}} 6 : 1882 births|1970 deaths|American manufacturing businesspeople|Concrete pioneers|People from Alpena, Michigan|20th-century American inventors |
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