Henry Rowan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Rowan

American engineer and philanthropist

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1923

Date of Death: 09-Dec-2015

Profession: engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of the arts

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Henry Rowan

  • Henry Madison "Hank" Rowan Jr.
  • (1923–2015) was an American engineer and philanthropist.
  • Rowan University was named for him, after he made a $100-million donation.He was born in Raphine, Virginia, to Henry M.
  • Rowan Sr.
  • and Margaret Frances Boyd Rowan on December 4, 1923 (coincidentally the same year the school which now carries his name was founded).
  • He grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and, after serving as a bomber pilot in World War II with the United States Army Air Forces, Rowan attended Williams College and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors with a degree in electrical engineering.Rowan originally worked for Ajax Electrothermic Corporation of Trenton, New Jersey.
  • He suggested improvements to the furnaces made by Ajax—shorter power leads and heavier copper bus bar—but the company did not implement his suggestions.
  • Rowan left Ajax and decided to start his own company, Inductotherm Corp.
  • Rowan designed and built his first induction furnace in 1953 in the garage of his home in Ewing Township, New Jersey with the help of his wife.
  • Expanding from this first induction furnace Rowan created Inductotherm Industries Inc.
  • which has since grown to include 80 subsidiaries throughout North America, South America, Europe, India, Asia and Australia.
  • Today, there are more than 27,000 Inductotherm induction melting installations worldwide and they account for more than half of the melting systems in the world today.

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