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Last week the Society of Automotive Engineers, meeting in Detroit, installed as its new president able, burly Ralph Rowe Teetor, vice president and research director of Perfect Circle Co. (piston rings). This topflight engineer saw none of the charts which accompanied technical discussions. He is totally blind...
When inquisitive Ralph Teetor was 6, he tried to open a locked bookcase drawer with a penknife. The knife slipped. The blade jabbed into the corner of his right eye. Loss of sight in both eyes followed...
When War broke, he asked for and got an appointment as consultant at a shipyard in Camden, N. J. For months he was given nothing to do. The other engineers were trying vainly to balance the turbine rotors for torpedo boat destroyers. Called in as a last resort. Teetor drew on his supersensitive ''feel" for vibration, found a way to balance the rotors in three hours each...
After the War, Teetor went back to Hagerstown to rejoin the company founded by his uncle in 1900, in which young Ralph had balanced crankshafts after college. He married a small, trim schoolteacher named Nellie Van Antwerp. They now have a 5-year-old daughter...
...Teetor enterprise has changed its name several times and switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day. It has more Teetors than Sun Oil has Pews. Hagerstown has less than 2,000 inhabitants, but a third of them work for Perfect Circle and the town has no unemployment. Perfect Circle mail grew so heavy that little Hagers-town got an $80,000 post office...