Schreckengost, Viktor Sebring
- Schreckengost, Viktor Sebring
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▪ 2009
American industrial designer
born June 26, 1906, Sebring, Ohio
died Jan. 26, 2008, Tallahassee, Fla.
was perhaps best remembered for his Art Deco “Jazz” bowls, which were originally created in the 1930s for first lady Eleanor Roosevelt for use in the White House. Among the hundreds of innovative household products Schreckengost designed were toys, pedal cars shaped like jet planes and missiles, the Sears Spaceliner bicycle, china, Jiffy Ware ceramic food containers, the “Beverly Hills” lawn chair, baby walkers, lawn mowers, and radar-recognition systems used during World War II. He was also credited with helping to revolutionize the trucking industry with the invention in 1933 of the first cab-over-engine truck. The centenarian spent more than 70 years as a faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Schreckengost was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2006.
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