Four men from St. Mark's Episcopal Church, all engineers from Pratt & Whitney, including former mayor and city councilman Walter Wiley, helped plan and build the tractor shed during the years of school and sanctuary reconstruction. The other church…
In 1967, the US Air Force funded a study into advanced rocket propulsion systems, employing Pratt & Whitney to research more efficient engines for the NASA Space Shuttle. This photograph shows Bill Creslein and Walter Wiley, both of Pratt & Whitney,…
When Pratt & Whitney first opened for business on June 15, 1958, just west of the site where Palm Beach Gardens would be founded almost a year later, there were no gas stations or traffic lights. The state of Florida agreed to build a road (later to…