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Garfield Arthur " Gar " Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) on water.
Jun 15, 2024 · Garfield Arthur Wood was a U.S. driver and builder of racing motorboats, also credited with devising the small, swift PT (patrol torpedo) boats of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Educated at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Wood was employed as a marine engine mechanic and eventually derived.
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Early Background. Garfield Wood never intended to go into the boat building business. His goal was to personally set every speed record on water and be recognized as the world’s speedboat king.
Learn about Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood, a Detroit area inventor who created the hydraulic lift, the Gar Wood Load Packer, and the Gar Wood motorboats. He also broke five world speed records and helped design the PT boats for World War II.
Aug 3, 2016 · Garfield Wood never intended to go into the boat building business. His goal in life was to personally set every speed record on water and be recognized as the world’s speedboat king. However, a need for speed on the water came about at an early age working with his father.
Jul 6, 2015 · Few people remember that Gar Wood, the man who put motor trucks to work 100 years ago when he patented and produced the hydraulic hoist for dump bodies, was also the first to exceed 100...
Jul 3, 2015 · Miss America VIII was Wood’s latest and greatest. Since 1918, with Miss Detroit III, he had been fitting his speedboats with aircraft engines, first Curtiss and then Liberty V-12s.
