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Louis Gathmann

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Louis Gathmann Famous memorial

Birth
Germany
Death
4 Jun 1917 (aged 72)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section U, Site 249
Memorial ID
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Famed Inventor, Professor, Astronomer, Businessman, and Politican. He invented the first sectional telescope lenses, the Big Berthas of the Great War, the German 42-CM Shell, and countless other weapons of that era. His son Emil was the famed inventor who ran Gathmann Engineering of Baltimore, the company famous for generating the best steel Ingot Molds of the 1920s through the 1950s.
Famed Inventor, Professor, Astronomer, Businessman, and Politican. He invented the first sectional telescope lenses, the Big Berthas of the Great War, the German 42-CM Shell, and countless other weapons of that era. His son Emil was the famed inventor who ran Gathmann Engineering of Baltimore, the company famous for generating the best steel Ingot Molds of the 1920s through the 1950s.

Bio by: Jim Gathmann



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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Originally Created by: Jim Gathmann
  • Added: Nov 5, 2003
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8061832/louis-gathmann: accessed ), memorial page for Louis Gathmann (11 Aug 1844–4 Jun 1917), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8061832, citing Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.