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Ralph Cross
Ralph Cross
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Brass Goods, manufactured a variety of metal products, primarily brass goods and marine hardware. As the years passed and the company added to its product line, the Skipper's love for boats influenced his decision to start offering marine engines.
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As the economy began to recover in 1937 the company began to expand its machine tool product base by offering "special" nonstandardized machines that solved each customer's problem in the most efficient way. When World War II started, the company redirected its efforts to the manufacture of special machines for the country's war efforts, machines that would produce armaments, tanks, airplane parts, and other military
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In 1946, following World War II, as industry converted from wartime to peacetime products, the demand for special machine tools rose rapidly and fostered an era of unprecedented innovation in manufacturing methods and machines. This postwar period gave many companies the opportunity to replace previously scrapped or obsolete machines with new ones employing the latest technological advances.
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It developed the first integrated manufacturing system for machining, assembling, and testing transmission stator support assemblies; the industry's first nonsynchronous transfer machine for assembling and testing disc brake assemblies; and the industry's first automated "Cold State" engine diagnostic and test system. In all of these developments the Cross Company was the clear industry leader, often introducing product innovations that became industry standards and expanding into markets years ahead of its competitors.
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In this capacity he monitored the development of numerically controlled machine tools for aircraft production. • In 1955, he testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the subject of "Automation and Technological Change," where he warned of the growth of world competition that he foresaw and the possible effects on the U.S.
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He also contributed generously to the Ralph Cross Endowment Fund of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation, which makes grants to students in manufacturing education. One of Cross's proudest moments occurred in 2000 when MIT dedicated the Cross Student Lounge and Cross CAD/ Cam Laboratory.
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of Pasadena, California; Carol March Emerson Cross of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Dennis Cross of New York, New York; nine grandchildren (Ralph Cross III of Madison, Wisconsin; Elizabeth Siudara of Metamora, Michigan; Nicholas Cross Wodtke of Santa Monica, California; Ashley Cross Chiampo of Boston, Massachusetts; Louisa Emerson Cross of Boston, Massachusetts; Andrew Cross of Seattle, Washington; Amy Cross Wishard of Pasadena, California; Francesca Cross Wodtke of New York, New York; and Eliza Sperry Cross of New York, New York) , and four great-grandchildren.
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