Caleb Bragg

Caleb Smith Bragg was an American racecar driver, speedboat racer, aviation pioneer, and automotive inventor. He participated in the 1911, 1913 and 1914 Indianapolis 500. In speedboat racing, Caleb won three consecutive APBA Challenge Cup races in Detroit from 19231925. He was a coinventor of the BraggKliesrath brake.

He was born on November 23, 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Cais C. Bragg and Eugenia Hofer who were wealthy. While at Yale University he became interested in automobile racing. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and took a postgraduate engineering course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1909. During World War I he became interested in flying airplanes and in 1916 he flew his first solo flight he later set airplane records for speed and altitude.

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