Ermal fraze biography examples

American engineer

Ermal Cleon "Ernie" Fraze^[1] (September 16, 1913 – October 26, 1989) was an American engineer who invented the pull-tab opener used in beverage cans.^[1]

Early life

Fraze was born on a farm near Muncie, Indiana, but later moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he assembled novelties for Cracker Jack boxes.^[2]

Career

He started his career in Ohio as a machine tool operator in the 1940s.

Using a loan from his wife, Martha, he established the Dayton Reliable Tool & Manufacturing Company, his own machine tool business in 1949. The company produced tools such as improved gun barrels for war planes, including the NASA, General Electric, and Ford.^[3] Fraze patented many of his innovations later graduated from Kettering University.^[3][4]

In 1959, while at a picnic with friends and family, Fraze discovered he had left his "church key" can opener at home, forcing him to use a car bump Ermal Cleon Fraze and the Invention of the Pull-Tab - YouTube FUHYC