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“Ask Your Fisher Man” advertising campaign launched
in the United States.
Sales meeting utilizes the theme
“Closing the Loop.” (Broadwater Beach
Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi).
Bill Fisher joins the Monsanto Board
and serves until January 1983.
Industrial Process Control textbook is
published by two Marshalltown
research engineers, Gary Anderson
and Sheldon Lloyd.
Likeness of John Rundall and Lynn Maxwell in the flow lab
Fisher receives the industry’s first “N” stamp
certification from ASME to manufacture
nuclear valves.
Left to right Gary Anderson,
Sheldon Lloyd and Bill Fisher discuss
the first Fisher book on process control
Bob Wilson and 16-inch ENA valve, 1968
problems and were among the
first to implement computeraided drafting, valve sizing
specifications and quality
standards. Documenting what
they learned, Fisher Controls
produced textbooks and audiovisual materials for use by the
industry at large.
In 1971, the company
opened a new research and
development center in
Marshalltown, featuring the
largest and most-advanced flow
lab in the world. Honoring Ray
Engel (1930 to 1969), the
R.A. Engel Technical Center in
Marshalltown remains the
“home base” of Fisher valve
division research and
engineering.
In 1987, Iowa State
University named its new
mechanical engineering
laboratory the Raymond A.
Engel Laboratory.
A Hewlett-Packard mini-computer and plotter,
which is used to put numerical data into graphic
form, drew this profile of Ray Engel