Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Prewar Parking Meter Patents


Top row; Raymond Loewy; Industrial Designer

Second row; David Rockola, inventor of the self-named jukebox- the Rock-Ola.

Third row; John B. McGay, he and a partner, George E. Nicholson, founded the Macnick Company in 1930 to manufacture the first parking meters, an invention of an Oklahoma City publisher, Carl L. Magee. 

He also came up with the idea of inserting a valve into the rim of a tire to eliminate the need for a tube and offered it to the Government as a means of conserving rubber in World War II.


2 comments:

rats said...

I wonder if there's any overlap among those designers and the ice-cream-cone guy/s celebrated here a while back.

VectorWarbirds said...

I am going with Loewy the others look 1800s.