Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Stanley Aaron Dashew (September 16, 1916- April 25, 2013) was an American entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, and sailor who developed many devices in diverse industries, but remains best known as one of the forefathers and founders of the plastic credit card industry during the 1950s. Working alongside Joseph P. Williams, then Vice President of Bank of America and who handled the financial banking systems side, he made revolutionary contributions to accessible credit with his innovations on the mechanical and hardware end, especially with the Databosser. Authorities and publications in automated data credit his new designs for the embossing machine as the first to integrate IBM punch cards with embossers that automatically generated variable alphanumeric data pressed into new materials (first aluminum alloy, then plastic). The concept of portable variable data soon ushered in the current credit card economy.During the course of his manufacturing career, Dashew has been issued fourteen U.S. patents for his inventions and mechanisms, and has also been responsible for the creation of more than fifty other patents assigned to his many companies. He has created mechanical systems in the business data, banking, shipping, mining, transportation, marine recreation, water purification, and medical-health industries. These included the Databosser and Datawriter under Dashew Business Machines, the single point mooring buoy in Imodco (SBM Offshore), the Dashaveyor mining cars and people transport for the Dashaveyor Company, a ship bow thruster under the Omnithruster Company, liquid aeration and oxygenation treatments through Omniphaser, wastewater purification system for Biomixer, Inc., and personal spinal decompression mobility devices under the title Dashaway—the latter developed and marketed under his oversight, while in his nineties, from 2005 to 2010.In January 2011, Dashew released his first book—an inspirational memoir in a business paperback trade edition, entitled You Can Do It! Inspiration and Lessons from an Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Sailor (published by Constellation Press). The book was written over a ten-year period with co-author and executive coach Josef S. Klus. The biography was released in seven different e-book digital reader formats; talks have begun for translation into Mandarin for the Chinese market.. }
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- Stanley_Dashew abstract "Stanley Aaron Dashew (September 16, 1916- April 25, 2013) was an American entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, and sailor who developed many devices in diverse industries, but remains best known as one of the forefathers and founders of the plastic credit card industry during the 1950s. Working alongside Joseph P. Williams, then Vice President of Bank of America and who handled the financial banking systems side, he made revolutionary contributions to accessible credit with his innovations on the mechanical and hardware end, especially with the Databosser. Authorities and publications in automated data credit his new designs for the embossing machine as the first to integrate IBM punch cards with embossers that automatically generated variable alphanumeric data pressed into new materials (first aluminum alloy, then plastic). The concept of portable variable data soon ushered in the current credit card economy.During the course of his manufacturing career, Dashew has been issued fourteen U.S. patents for his inventions and mechanisms, and has also been responsible for the creation of more than fifty other patents assigned to his many companies. He has created mechanical systems in the business data, banking, shipping, mining, transportation, marine recreation, water purification, and medical-health industries. These included the Databosser and Datawriter under Dashew Business Machines, the single point mooring buoy in Imodco (SBM Offshore), the Dashaveyor mining cars and people transport for the Dashaveyor Company, a ship bow thruster under the Omnithruster Company, liquid aeration and oxygenation treatments through Omniphaser, wastewater purification system for Biomixer, Inc., and personal spinal decompression mobility devices under the title Dashaway—the latter developed and marketed under his oversight, while in his nineties, from 2005 to 2010.In January 2011, Dashew released his first book—an inspirational memoir in a business paperback trade edition, entitled You Can Do It! Inspiration and Lessons from an Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Sailor (published by Constellation Press). The book was written over a ten-year period with co-author and executive coach Josef S. Klus. The biography was released in seven different e-book digital reader formats; talks have begun for translation into Mandarin for the Chinese market.".