Howard head biography

Howard Head (July 31, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 3, 1991) was an American aeronautical engineer who is credited with the invention of the first commercially successful aluminum laminateskis^[1] and the oversized tennis racket. Head founded the ski (and later tennis racquet)-making firm, Head, in 1950.

Later, he became chairman of Prince Manufacturing Inc. The U.S. patents for the laminate skis and oversized tennis racket are in the name of Howard Head.^[2] He graduated from Harvard College in 1936.^[3]

Ski equipment

In 1947, Howard Head was an aircraft engineer for Glenn L.

Martin Company in Baltimore, and went skiing for the first time. Head was frustrated with the quality of the wooden skis, which he found clumsy and heavy and felt they made skiing very difficult for beginners. He decided to develop a lighter and more efficient ski that could make skiing much easier for all users. He left his job and devoted all hi Howard Head - U.S.

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