Gas Engines
Fire at the Schmidt Bros. Co. Engine Works Factory. Two young men, fresh out of business college, launch a company. It is a story full of promise – but for the Schmidt brothers – Bernard ("Ben") and Franz – of Davenport, Iowa, it is also a story of tragedy. Ben Schmidt was 29 and his brother Franz just 22 when, in 1898, the two […]
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