Hydraulics Engineer Elevated Workers And Materials to Ever Higher Places
Few people can claim one major equipment brand was named after them, but John Landis Grove had two. A prominent engineer, visionary, businessman and philanthropist, Grove died June 16 in Greencastle, Pa. He was 82 years old.
According to colleagues, Grove was responsible for popularizing telescoping cranes in North America and is called the father of the elevating work platform. "I doubt that the boom lift would exist today without him," says equipment consultant Guy Ramsey of Scottsdale, Ariz.