Malcolm Loughead

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Malcolm Loughead (* 1887 in Niles , California ; † 1958 ) was an American inventor and aviation pioneer. Together with his brother Allan Haines Loughead, he founded the Alco Hydro-Airplane Company on December 19, 1912, which manufactured seaplanes . In 1916 the brothers opened a small aircraft factory (Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) in Santa Barbara . While Malcolm turned away from aviation, his brother Allan founded the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 , the origin of today 's American aerospace company in Burbank . The name Loughead was changed in February 1934 after being pronounced in Lockheed.

Malcolm Loughead received U.S. Patent 1249143 on December 4, 1917 for a hydraulic brake (with wheel brake cylinder) and applied for a master cylinder patent on December 17, 1920 . The first car model with this hydraulic brake system - acting on all four wheels - was Model A from Duesenberg (1921), the Chrysler B-70 model (1924) was equipped with this brake in larger numbers . Alfred Teves received the marketing rights for Germany in 1926 , and the Adler Standard 6 was equipped with them in the same year . With a few exceptions, all car manufacturers introduced the “System Lockheed” oil pressure brake from the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Company by the end of the 1930s. In 1932 Loughead sold the company's shares to Vincent Bendix. Loughead's invention is still a "core component of the hydraulic braking system" today.

  • Loughead Model G (1913)

  • Loughead S-1 (1920)

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  1. ↑ Allan Lockheed, cf. [1]
  2. ↑ lockheedmartin.com Our History (accessed May 25, 2017)
  3. ↑ nationalaviation ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Allan Lockheed @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com
  4. ↑ U.S. Patent 1249143
  5. ↑ U.S. Patent 1430746
  6. ↑ Olaf von Fersen : A Century of Automobile Technology ., P. 31.
  7. ^ LJK Setright: The Guinness Book of Motorcycling . Facts and Feats. 1982, ISBN 0-85112-255-8 , p. 257.
  8. ^ Bert Breuer, Karlheinz H. Bill: Brake manual . Verlag Fried.Vieweg und Sohn, Wiesbaden, 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 3-528-13952-8 , p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Loughead, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lockheed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American inventor and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Niles , California
DATE OF DEATH 1958