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Mark Honeywell
Mark Honeywell was an amazing man. He was born and raised in Wabash County. To add to his amazing contributions he made the thermostat, Honeywell security system, a flight control for a plane, the humidistat, autopilot for a plane, and space vehicles. He made a water heating system in 1906. Mark built a home in Miami, Florida as his part house. After more and more people came to Miami he ended up making an island called Boca Chita in 1930.
He employed four hundred fifty employees to work in his factories that made thermostats and automatic controls for heating systems in the early 1920s. Mark merged his business with a Minneapolis-based company to create the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Co. Mark Honeywell was president of the company. Today, we call it Honeywell Inc. Now, Honeywell Inc. is a fortune known for its thermostats. It used to have four hundred fifty employees now it has over one hundred thousand employees making it a major company.
He didn’t just make and sell things he also was a learner of arts. He was a photographer and he also tried his h...

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