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Post #357943 by ikitnrev on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 4:04 PM

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Viktor Schreckengost, influential industrial designer, is dead at 101. He passed away on Jan 26.

He is perhaps best known to my generation as the guy who created the following pedal vehicle

Viktor was also an illustrator - here is one of his works for an instruction guide to semaphores.

Many more of Schreckengost's designs can be found at his foundation's website, located here
http://www.viktorschreckengost.org/


The best on-line obituary I've found is this one ...
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1201512814151390.xml&coll=2