Raymond Alvah Hanson (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raymond Alvah Hanson (December 10, 1923 - February 18, 2009), was an entrepreneur, inventor and engineer who lived in Spokane, Washington. Hanson held over 100 patents. He created and produced equipment that was used on the Trans-Alaskan pipeline, on canals in over 50 countries (including the California Aqueduct System) and the self-leveling control for hillside Combine Harvesters. Hanson was born in Potlatch, Idaho in 1923, the son of Ray & Orda (Hensley) Hanson. The family later moved to Palouse, Washington. Hanson grew up around the iconic rolling hills of the Palouse region, which would play into his first invention, the self leveling control for Combine Harvesters. Hanson attended the University of Idaho, majoring in electrical engineering. At the age of 19 while farming in Palouse, Washington he applied his engineering and farming knowledge to finding a better way to harvest the fertile but often steep slopes found in that area.