Henry Rowan

Who is Henry Rowan?

Henry Rowan is an American philanthropist and engineer. Rowan University is named after him.

He was born to Dr. Henry M. Rowan Sr. and Margaret Frances Boyd Rowan in 1923. After serving his country as a bomber pilot in World War II, Rowan graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors with a degree in electrical engineering.

Henry originally worked for Ajax Electrothermic Corporation of Trenton, New Jersey. He suggested improvements to the furnaces made by Ajax - shorter power leads and heavier copper bus bar - but the company did not implement his suggestions. Henry left Ajax and decided to start his own company, Inductotherm Corp. Mr. Rowan designed and built his first induction furnace in his home's garage in 1953 with the help of his wife. Expanding from this first induction furnace Rowan created Inductotherm Industries Inc. which has since grown to include 80 subsidiaries throughout North America, South America, Europe, India, Asia and Australia. Today, there are more than 27,000 Inductotherm induction melting installations worldwide and they account for more than half of the melting systems in the world today.