A former Inco employee who was credited with designing the first mass-produced stainless steel sink, Harry Galley, died recently in Toronto. He was 91.
A native of Arundel, Que., he attended McGill University in Montreal where he obtained his bachelor of commerce degree.
Galley joined Inco in New York in 1927 as a member of the sales division. He returned to Canada in 1934 with the company. In 1941, he joined Inco’s newly created Alloy Metal Sales, where he served as vice-president and president.
Stainless steel sinks were in existence before Galley patented his design in the late 1940s, but they were generally expensive to purchase. Galley’s design involved rounding a sink’s corners and decreasing the nickel content of the steel used in its manufacture.
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