Ingenuity in a Can: The Ralph Stolle Story
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.
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.