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Cummins Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes diesel engines, electric vehicle components, and power generation products. Cummins also services engi
An early Cummins diesel in a 1950 Indianapolis 500 roadster
Columbus main plant (1973)
Cummins first headquarters
A Cummins generator at the base of a radio mast
Clessie Cummins
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Clessie Lyle Cummins was the founder of the Cummins Engine Co. He was an entrepreneur who improved on existing diesel engines, created new diesel engine designs, was awarded 33 United States patents f
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…independent distributors and approximately 7,200 dealers. The Cummins Engine Company was founded in Columbus, Indiana on February 3, 1919, by mechanic Clessie Cummins and banker William Glanton Irwin. The company focused on developing the diesel engine, which was invented 20 years earlier. Despite several well-publicized…
Cummins (left) showing Fred Duesenberg one of his engines