Source: Rockford Register Star, December, 2019.
Woodward Governor
Rockford Police Relief Association, 42nd Biennial Ball – 1986
Source: Rockford Police Relief Association, 42nd Biennial Ball, May 23, 1986, p. 62
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Rockford Park District – A River Gathering
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Rockford’s Top Employers, 1980 and 2005 – 2008 article
Source: Rockford Register Star December 21, 2008
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WWII Army Air – MIA Zielinski, Staff Sgt. Edward S.
“Missing Airman Lost Off France” reported missing in action since July 11 last seen over the North Sea in disable plane he had taken part in robot bomb installations son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Zielinski, graduated West High School 1942 was employed Woodward Governor before entering army March 1943 trained at Harlington, TX and Peterson field, Colorado Springs, CO
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/16/1944
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Woodward Governor Co.
“E” Award
Source: Illinois in the Second World War 940.5373 W34 v.2 pg. 73
E Award presented 1942, to which 4 stars have been added
Amos Woodward 1870 patent waterwheel governor manufactured hydraulic governors for prime movers: governors in Grand Coulee Dam, Spokane, WA governors in Soviet Union’s Dnieprostroy Dam.
Accomplishments include 1911: hydraulic governor 1917: automatic auxiliary equipment for remotely controlled hdro plants 1919: moto-driven governor head 1931: permanent magnet generator 1934: cabinet type actuator on Monroe Dam, Columbus, Nebraska on Watts Bar Dam near Dayton, Tennessee, Diesel governors on military ships unit for automatically controlling adjustable-pitch propellers Woodward airplane governor steam and wind turbine governors.
1872-1893 in frame structure plant 1893 moved into N.C. Thompson’s Reaper Works Building.
Source: 75 Years of Looking Forward: Woodward Governor Company, Rockford, Illinois
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine Winter 2006 – 2007
Source: Rockford Register Star 1/2/2011
Source: Rockford Register Star 8/28/2012
Source: Rockford Register Star 11/1/2012
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Woodward, Elmer Ellsworth 1862-1940
1862-1940. 1899 developed first mechanical compensating type governor
Source: 75 Years of Looking Forward: Woodward Governor Company, Rockford, Illinois R 621 W87
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Otto Oliver White Jr. – 1929 – 2016
U.S. Army
Source: Rockford Register Star 6/19/2016h
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Warren D. Schneider – Apr 2016
Source: Rockford Register Star April 19. 2016
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WWII – Navy Holtz, Lewis Arthur
completed training for 3rd Class Petty Officer of aviation ordnance at naval air technical attended Rockford High School and U of I and was machinist Woodward-Governor before Navy
Source: Rockford Morning Star 8/23/1944
