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Stanley Aaron Dashew (September 16, 1916- April 25, 2013) was an American entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, and sailor who developed many devices in diverse industries, but remains best known as one of the forefathers and founders of the plastic credit card industry during the 1950s. Working alongside Joseph P. Williams, then Vice President of Bank of America and who handled the financial banking systems side, he made revolutionary contributions to accessible credit with his innovations on the mechanical and hardware end, especially with the Databosser. Authorities and publications in automated data credit his new designs for the embossing machine as the first to integrate IBM punch cards with embossers that automatically generated variable alphanumeric data pressed into new materials (first aluminum alloy, then plastic). The concept of portable variable data soon ushered in the current credit card economy. During the course of his manufacturing career, Dashew has been issued fourteen U.S. patents for his inventions and mechanisms, and has also been responsible for the creation of more than fifty other patents assigned to his many companies.〔http://www.wikipatents.com/CA-Patent-1163505/boat-thruster〕 He has created mechanical systems in the business data, banking, shipping, mining, transportation, marine recreation, water purification, and medical-health industries. These included the Databosser and Datawriter under Dashew Business Machines, the single point mooring buoy in Imodco (SBM Offshore), the Dashaveyor mining cars and people transport for the Dashaveyor Company, a ship bow thruster under the Omnithruster Company, liquid aeration and oxygenation treatments through Omniphaser, wastewater purification system for Biomixer, Inc., and personal spinal decompression mobility devices under the title —the latter developed and marketed under his oversight, while in his nineties, from 2005 to 2010. ==Early life== Stanley Dashew's parents Esther (Turits) and Leon Dashew, circa 1900 after emigration from Russia to America, at time of marriage. Dashew's mother and father emigrated from Russia and Lithuania, respectively, during the pogroms and poverty caused by the Cossack uprising that eventually led to the Bolshevik or Red Revolution. Dashew was the middle child of the family, born in the Harlem district in New York City. He spent most of his childhood on a sixty-five-acre agricultural property his parents owned in Pomona, New York, with his two sisters. The Dashew family ran their homestead as a summer resort—first for family and friends, and later year-round for vacationers and residents. Dashew's first foray into business at age eight was a soda pop bottle redemption service, and his first endeavor at direct customer sales came at age twelve (door-to-door bushels of peaches). By age fifteen, he had also become a Hires Root Beer reseller and sold at a roadway stand with the family’s produce and fruit. During his teenage and high school years, at the height of The Great Depression, he also helped manage his family’s properties; he secured the first business bank loan for the family enterprise, by himself. 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「Stanley Dashew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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