Ingenuity in a Can: The Ralph Stolle Story

$20.00

  • 117 pages

  • 7 x 10

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 978-1882203451

  • Copyright 2004

By Geoffrey Williams

There was nothing subtle about the twist Ralph Stolle added to the beer and soda pop can. Stolle led a team of engineers into modern America when he agreed to create a way to mass produce the easy open end pull tab—in a matter of weeks. That little piece of aluminum we all take for granted was a major engineering feat when it was “pulled off” in the early 1960s.

But Stolle did so much more during his ninety-two years as an inventor and a philanthropist of 20th century Ohio. And while Stolle may have “written the book” on entrepreneurship, it is writer Geoff Williams who followed his ghost and tells us how it happened.

  • 117 pages

  • 7 x 10

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 978-1882203451

  • Copyright 2004

By Geoffrey Williams

There was nothing subtle about the twist Ralph Stolle added to the beer and soda pop can. Stolle led a team of engineers into modern America when he agreed to create a way to mass produce the easy open end pull tab—in a matter of weeks. That little piece of aluminum we all take for granted was a major engineering feat when it was “pulled off” in the early 1960s.

But Stolle did so much more during his ninety-two years as an inventor and a philanthropist of 20th century Ohio. And while Stolle may have “written the book” on entrepreneurship, it is writer Geoff Williams who followed his ghost and tells us how it happened.