William T. Schwendler

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William T. Schwendler (April 1, 1904 - January 15, 1978 in

until leaving to form their new company in a rented garage in December 1929.

The son of a German immigrant father, Schwendler was a 1924 graduate of New York University where he was one of the school's first students of aeronautical engineering.^[1] In 1956, Schwendler became a trustee of NYU. He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at NYU and is a charter member of the fraternity's Hall of Fame.

He resided until his death on a 6-acre (24,000 m²) estate on Merritts Road in Farmingdale, New York, adjacent to the Bethpage State Park Golf Course.

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• Time magazine: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1978
• Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark Paper