Legend has it that Charles Kettering, later known as "Boss Ket," earned his first $14 cutting a neighbor's wheat crop. With the money, he bought a telephone from a mail-order house, dismantled it to ...

Imagine stepping into your car on a chilly morning, walking to the front, and swinging a heavy iron lever with all your might to start the engine. That was the routine first motorists endured before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Happy birthday to one of the unheralded legends who helped make Michigan the automotive capital of ...

An estimated $350,000 project at Delco Park, once completed, will provide the city with its first public space dedicated to Charles F. Kettering and veterans in the city. The project, which is called ...

The 14-hospital system launched the Center for Clinical Innovation on April 3 at its ex-corporate headquarters and the former home of Charles Kettering, its late namesake who was an engineer and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Happy birthday to one of the unheralded legends who helped make Michigan the automotive capital of the world, Charles Kettering. Names like Ford and Dodge are synonymous ...

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