Robert A. Goodall

(1891-1953) born at Grant, Perkins County, and lived in Crete and Ogallala. Inventor, businessman, was responsible for an estimated 200 inventions, founded in 1928 the Good-All Electric Manufacturing Company which originated, developed and marketed condensers for radios, television sets, hearing aids, ignition systems and various electronic devices, condenser manufacturing equipment, rectifiers for cathodic protection, electroplating, battery charging and motion picture arcs, soldering machines for use with precious metals, arc welders, cleaning machines for precision instruments, theater sound equipment and air blowers, and fishing reels and pre-fabricated houses; won top ordnance production awards during World War II for manufacturing condensers used in armed services proximity fuses and quartz crystals for communications equipment. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, April 3, 1949, p. C-4 and The Rotarian, November 1949, pp. 26-28, 49-50 and Nebraska on the March, May 1950, pp. 4-5 and Lincoln Star obituary, October 24, 1953, p. 3.

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