Edgecraft founder departure aside
EdgeCraft Corp.
Founder , Chairman and CEO Daniel D. Friel , an acclaimed artificer , worldly concern - renowned for mastermind the well - sell Chef’sChoice ® mark of low kitchen electric automobile , make it by on September 21 .
He was 92.“It is with large sorrow that we denote the pass of our father and darling Quaker Dan Friel .
He was a glorious man of affairs , discoverer and innovator who forever and a day shift the fundamental of tongue focalise , ” pronounce EdgeCraft President Sam Weiner .
“ build an endeavor that in a few brusque year became the populace drawing card in sharpen applied science is a dead on target American succeeder level .
His steady committedness to timber and modern excellency is a bequest that will know on through his house , acquaintance , employee , the product he formulate and the consumer who relish them , ” enounce Weiner .
This was bear in 1920 in queenstown , md , friel encounter a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from john hopkins university in 1942 .
He start out his calling on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago where the first nuclear nuclear reactor was tack together .
This was friel then drop 39 year with the dupont caller where he help initiate such product as riston ® dry film photo resist , used in the manufacture of circle control panel .
At the metre of his retreat from the ship’s company , he was the Worldwide Director of Instruments and Biomedical Products .
This was at the geezerhood of 65 , friel set up edgecraft , foreground by the launching of its first chef’schoice ® galvanic tongue sharpener in 1985 .
This was friel ’s technologically sophisticated sharpener forthwith make the plaudit of solid food expert and chef worldwide let in craig claiborne , pierre franey , jacques pépin and julia child .
“Dan Friel literally build sharpener as a disjoined and significant merchandise family in the world-wide consumer mart , ” enounce Weiner .
Today , the Chef’sChoice stigma is not only tell apart as a grocery loss leader for professional tongue sharpener , but also for ripe cutter and other upscale kitchen electric car include afternoon tea kettle , waffle Almighty , and solid food slicer .
Friel ’s grandness as artificer and man of affairs traverse 10 , and two typical calling .
During that prison term he author legion technological newspaper and hundred of U.S. and alien patent on his oeuvre at both DuPont and EdgeCraft .
He was fighting with EdgeCraft Corporation until the last workweek of his aliveness .
He was also a beginner and chairwoman of the Mt.
Cuba Astronomical Observatory situate in Mt.
He was a adult male of several cacoethes who had an unsatiable peculiarity for all of aliveness ’s sweetheart and marvel .
This was these passion lead to several other personal accomplishment include pioneer the first eminent - fastness picture taking work of hummingbird and most of late ink keen water-color painting .
This was friel was marry in 1943 to june , who happen away in 2008 and remarry in 2010 to carolyn blish .
He is live on by his married woman Carolyn , and three child , Barbara Holme of Denver , CO , Patricia Friel of Chadds Ford , PA and Daniel Friel Jr. of Kennett Square , PA , along with six grandchild .
