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Henry Dreyfuss

Henry Dreyfuss  was born in New York, New York on March 2, 1904.  Like Luigi, Henry was also an industrial designer.  Instead of cars though, Dreyfuss started out designing for Broadway.  When he was doing his work for Broadway he was only 17 years old.  Eight years later, he opened his own industrial design office.  At this office he had clients such as Bell Telephone, AT&T, American Airlines, Polaroid, Hoover, and many more.  In the late 30's Dreyfuss worked for John Deere designing farming equipment.  What caught my eye the most about Henry was his work with Lockheed Martin.  Lockheed Martin makes the C-130, which is the aircraft that I work on in the Air Force.  Henry Dreyfuss worked with them to convert military planes to civilian aircrafts.  He worked my my rival company Boeing and designed the interior of the Boeing 707.  Interestingly enough as well, Henry Dreyfuss was a founding father of the American Society of Industrial Design.
Tragically, Henry and his wife committed suicide together in 1972, two years after my parents were born...

http://www.biography.com/articles/Henry-Dreyfuss-9279245
http://www.henry-dreyfuss.com/