Erie Hall of Fame: Hugh Compton Lord

Hugh C. Lord was a renaissance man. Orphaned at 12, he grew to become a lawyer, specializing in patent law. Curious about all things Lord firmly believed that an inventive mind and practical scientific application could solve all problems -- especially the squeaky, screeching sounds of traffic in front of his home on busy West 5th Street. The noise of traffic became so intolerable that Lord developed rubber suspension mounts for cars. The mounts were so successful that General Electric soon bought them for their trains. Today Lord Corporation builds devices and systems to manage mechanical motion and control noise and vibration in vehicles that travel on and under water; on land; in the air and out in space.

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