Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation

Engineers Club of Dayton

View photos of the Engineers Club of Dayton site and building through the years from the 1866 flood through its founding in 1914, the building in 1918, to the present.

The Wright brothers together invented powered flight. Orville outlived his brother Wilbur, making additional contributions to aviation. He was a member of the Engineers Club of Dayton from 1914 to his death in 1948.

Edward A. Deeds

Patterson, the Wright Brothers, Kettering, and Morgan were men of vision, imagination, skill, and determination. But there is another man who made their ideas work, generating lasting benefit for Dayton and its citizens: Edward A. Deeds.

Charles F. Kettering

Charles F. Kettering, with 140 patents to his name, revolutionized the automobile with his invention of the electric automobile starter. Kettering co-founded the Engineers Club of Dayton.

Arthur E. Morgan

Arthur Ernest Morgan, civil engineer, administrator, and educator was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District, president of Antioch College, and the first chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority.

Maude Elsa Gardner

Admitted where Amelia Earhart was rejected, Maude Elsa Gardner became the first woman accepted into aeronautical engineering organizations.

Charles Otterbein Adams

At 99, Charlie Adams has lived Dayton history for nearly a century. A survivor of the 1913 flood, Charlie experienced electric cars, Orville Wright’s last airplane, and a lesson learned from Kettering.

Neal Loving

Neal Loving overcame adversity, racism and disability to become an aircraft designer, builder, pilot, engineer and educator. “I guess I have a history of people telling me what I can’t do. So far they’re all wrong.”

Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter

Named the First Lady of Aviation, Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter has helped make air travel practical and popular for over 70 years, as a pilot, promoter, business executive and philanthropist.

Chuck Buchanan

Thu 28 Apr 2011 10:33:55 AM EDT

Automotive engineer Chuck Buchanan's 122 worldwide patents include variable speed wipers that typified his dual focus of enhancing safety and the driving experience.

The Siebenthaler Family

Wed 29 Jun 2011 10:43:44 AM EDT

Cultivating success across six generations, the Siebenthaler family has impacted Dayton through innovation and adaptation.