Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Man Behind the Fan

By Barry Owens

It is not a name you hear mentioned often in the pantheon of great inventors such as Wilbur and Orville Wright, Edison, or even Fredric J. Baur (the genius behind the Pringles can). But the late O.A. Sutton, a welder turned manufacturer, and former College Hill resident, is credited with creating the most powerful, and arguably the most stylish, fan of the modern era—the Vornado.

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