1. Edwin Ruud was a Norwegian-American mechanical engineer and inventor who immigrated to the United States where he designed, sold, and popularized the tankless water heater.
11 Facts About Edwin Ruud
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Edwin Ruud was the founder and President of Ruud Manufacturing Company, now a division of Rheem Manufacturing Company.
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Edwin Ruud was educated in engineering at the Horten Technical School in Vestfold, Norway.
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Eight years after filing his first US patent, Edwin Ruud filed the first of five patents he would assign to Westinghouse's Fuel Gas and Manufacturing company.
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In 1889, Edwin Ruud engineered a design for an automatic storage tank-type gas water heater that used a bottom gas heater and temperature controlled gas-valve.
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On January 22,1897, Edwin Ruud filed a patent separate from the Fuel Gas and Manufacturing Company for an Automatic Water Heater.
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Edwin Ruud was issued his patent for the coiled tube Automatic Water Heater on September 6,1898.
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Edwin Ruud's business expanded as he popularized and improved on his instant water heater design.
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In 1908, Edwin Ruud Manufacturing acquired two local heating and plumbing firms.
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The Thermal Valve Model, Type F, of the Edwin Ruud Instantaneous Automatic Water Heater is a design that allows the user to instantaneously heat water for on demand applications while not heating, thus saving fuel, when not in use.
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Edwin Ruud died in 1932 and his widow, Minna Kaufmann Ruud died in 1953.