CLAUDE YOUNG, 90, INVENTOR OF AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTS
by Kenan Heise, (Chicago) Tribune Staff Writer
Claude A. Young, 90, inventor, developed an industrial can opener that unseals cans without cutting or creating metal shavings. It received an Industrial Research 100 Award in 1980 as one of 100 most significant inventions of the year.
A resident of LaGrange, Mr. Young died Thursday in St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin.
"My father was a tinkerer," said his son Joseph. "He was a self-made man with little formal education, but he was always puttering with new ideas. He had a house full of things he had been working on."
Mr. Young held fourteen domestic and international patents. Among the products and systems he developed were a rescue system in high-rise buildings during fires. He also created a headlight with a beam that would not glare in another driver's eyes. He received American Iron & Steel Institute awards for his inventions in 1973 and 1975.
He had worked for Douglas Aircraft, as a safety inspector at the University of Chicago when the first nuclear reactor was being developed there and later at Argonne National Laboratory. He started C.A. Young Products Corp. in 1961 to develop products.
Other survivors include three sons, George, Pierre and Paul; four daughters, Jean Simon, Lucy Keoughan, Margaret Benka, and Angel Kowal; a brother; a sister; 24 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mass for Mr. Young will be said a 10 a.m. Saturday in Hallowell & James Funeral, 40 S. Ashland Ave., La Grange.
by Kenan Heise, (Chicago) Tribune Staff Writer
Claude A. Young, 90, inventor, developed an industrial can opener that unseals cans without cutting or creating metal shavings. It received an Industrial Research 100 Award in 1980 as one of 100 most significant inventions of the year.
A resident of LaGrange, Mr. Young died Thursday in St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin.
"My father was a tinkerer," said his son Joseph. "He was a self-made man with little formal education, but he was always puttering with new ideas. He had a house full of things he had been working on."
Mr. Young held fourteen domestic and international patents. Among the products and systems he developed were a rescue system in high-rise buildings during fires. He also created a headlight with a beam that would not glare in another driver's eyes. He received American Iron & Steel Institute awards for his inventions in 1973 and 1975.
He had worked for Douglas Aircraft, as a safety inspector at the University of Chicago when the first nuclear reactor was being developed there and later at Argonne National Laboratory. He started C.A. Young Products Corp. in 1961 to develop products.
Other survivors include three sons, George, Pierre and Paul; four daughters, Jean Simon, Lucy Keoughan, Margaret Benka, and Angel Kowal; a brother; a sister; 24 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mass for Mr. Young will be said a 10 a.m. Saturday in Hallowell & James Funeral, 40 S. Ashland Ave., La Grange.
CLAUDE YOUNG, 90, INVENTOR OF AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTS
by Kenan Heise, (Chicago) Tribune Staff Writer
Claude A. Young, 90, inventor, developed an industrial can opener that unseals cans without cutting or creating metal shavings. It received an Industrial Research 100 Award in 1980 as one of 100 most significant inventions of the year.
A resident of LaGrange, Mr. Young died Thursday in St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin.
"My father was a tinkerer," said his son Joseph. "He was a self-made man with little formal education, but he was always puttering with new ideas. He had a house full of things he had been working on."
Mr. Young held fourteen domestic and international patents. Among the products and systems he developed were a rescue system in high-rise buildings during fires. He also created a headlight with a beam that would not glare in another driver's eyes. He received American Iron & Steel Institute awards for his inventions in 1973 and 1975.
He had worked for Douglas Aircraft, as a safety inspector at the University of Chicago when the first nuclear reactor was being developed there and later at Argonne National Laboratory. He started C.A. Young Products Corp. in 1961 to develop products.
Other survivors include three sons, George, Pierre and Paul; four daughters, Jean Simon, Lucy Keoughan, Margaret Benka, and Angel Kowal; a brother; a sister; 24 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mass for Mr. Young will be said a 10 a.m. Saturday in Hallowell & James Funeral, 40 S. Ashland Ave., La Grange.
by Kenan Heise, (Chicago) Tribune Staff Writer
Claude A. Young, 90, inventor, developed an industrial can opener that unseals cans without cutting or creating metal shavings. It received an Industrial Research 100 Award in 1980 as one of 100 most significant inventions of the year.
A resident of LaGrange, Mr. Young died Thursday in St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin.
"My father was a tinkerer," said his son Joseph. "He was a self-made man with little formal education, but he was always puttering with new ideas. He had a house full of things he had been working on."
Mr. Young held fourteen domestic and international patents. Among the products and systems he developed were a rescue system in high-rise buildings during fires. He also created a headlight with a beam that would not glare in another driver's eyes. He received American Iron & Steel Institute awards for his inventions in 1973 and 1975.
He had worked for Douglas Aircraft, as a safety inspector at the University of Chicago when the first nuclear reactor was being developed there and later at Argonne National Laboratory. He started C.A. Young Products Corp. in 1961 to develop products.
Other survivors include three sons, George, Pierre and Paul; four daughters, Jean Simon, Lucy Keoughan, Margaret Benka, and Angel Kowal; a brother; a sister; 24 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Mass for Mr. Young will be said a 10 a.m. Saturday in Hallowell & James Funeral, 40 S. Ashland Ave., La Grange.
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