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Carl Graham Fisher (January 12, 1874 – July 15, 1939) was an American entrepreneur in the automotive industry, highway construction and real estate development.
Carl Fischer Music is the leading American music publisher celebrating 150 years helping educators & musicians shine with top repertoire & methods + etudes.
Carl Fisher was a complicated man with an imagination bigger than all of Indiana. In 1913, he led the effort to build the Lincoln Highway, the world’s first transcontinental highway connecting the East and West Coasts.
May 27, 2016 · But "Crazy" Carl G. Fisher -- an Elon Musk-level innovator of his era, mostly forgotten by history -- wouldn't have been satisfied. He was always searching for the next big thing.
May 25, 2024 · Carl Fisher, whose overzealous love for anything with wheels eventually became the Indy 500, is one of America's most fascinating forgotten sons. He raced bikes, motorcycles, and...
Carl Graham Fisher is best known as the man who created the most iconic racetrack on Earth, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Earlier, the Greensburg, IN native helped popularize the automobile by competing against Barney Oldfield and others in a series of lucrative exhibitions on Midwest fair tracks beginning in 1902.
Overlooked and forgotten by the editors of Who’s Who, Carl G. Fisher is at long last being recognized. A “Practical Visionary,” he created the first Transcontinental Highway, build the Indy 500, developed Miami Beach, and Montauk, New York, known as the “Miami Beach of the North.”
