József Galamb

József Galamb (1881 to 1955), known in English as Joseph A. Galamb, was a Hungarian mechanical engineer best known as the main engineer who designed the Ford Model T. Born in Makó, he finished his engineering studies in Budapest in 1899, worked in Hungary and Germany, and travelled to the United States in 1903. After jobs at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh and Stearns in Cleveland he joined the Ford Motor Company as a designer in December 1905. After redesigning the cooling system of the Model N he became the company's chief designer and devised many parts of the Model T. From 1915 he worked on the Fordson tractor, and during the First World War he designed military hardware. He lectured in Hungary on several visits, and his influence helped bring Ford V8 and Eifel assembly to Hungary from 1935. He retired in 1944 and died in Detroit in 1955.