FAMOUS INVENTOR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 63, 8 December 1936, Page 12

FAMOUS INVENTOR

Former Invercargill Resident DEATH OCCURS AT SEA By Telegraph—-Press Association. Invercargill. December 7. The death occurred at sea ou December 3 of Ernest Robert Godward, inventor and engineer, of Invercargill and America. Mr. Godward was journeying home to Invercargill, and died when his ship was off Gibraltar. He was in his 69th year. Mr. God ward was a Londoner who went to sea at a very early age He settled at Dunedin as a young map. and there made a name for himself in the world of athletics. It was as an inventor, however, that most prominence came his way. He took up a cycle business at Invercargill and produced several minor inventions. His biggest achievement was the inventing and patenting of an economiser for gas engines. At the time his invention was hailed as something wonderful by the engineering world, and he was sought b.v many of the world's leading ' engineers. As a result of his research he was able to give a big impetus to scientific engineering, and he was offered and accepted a big position in New York. During the past 20 years lie spent most of his time in the United States, where be was recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on internal combustion engines.