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Harold Warp (December 21, 1903 – April 9, 1994) was an American businessman who invented Flex-O-Glass®. He also founded Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Flex-O-Glass® )〕 Harold Warp was born in a sod house on a farm near Minden, Nebraska. He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. When he was three years old, his father died and his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers moved to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had developed. Their business became successful and in time its product line grow to include many other plastic products. Warp Bros. is still in business and remains under family ownership. Harold Warp was the recipient of numerous awards including the Horatio Alger Award in 1979 and the Distinguished Nebraskalander Award in 1984. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Harold Warp, Founder Flex-O-Glass, Inc. )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 1984 - Harold Warp )〕 Pioneer Village opened in 1953 in Minden, Nebraska. In 1983, Warp donated the museum to the nonprofit Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harold Warp Pioneer Village )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Warp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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