Marion Rice Hart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marion Rice Hart

American writer and aviator

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1891

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1990

Profession: writer, aircraft pilot

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Marion Rice Hart

  • Marion Rice Hart (10 October 1891 – July 2, 1990) was an American sportswoman and writer. Hart was born in London, the fourth of six children of Isaac Rice, a businessman who founded the Electric Boat Company (producer of submarines for the US Navy and others).
  • Her older sister Dorothy Rice Peirce Sims (1889–1960) also became famous as an aviator and sportswoman.
  • Their mother Julia B.
  • Rice founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises in New York City.According to the cultural historian Hillel Schwartz, as paraphrased by a New Yorker journalist: "In 1903, Isaac Rice and his wife and intellectual partner, Julia Barnett Rice—both accomplished musicians—sought to escape noisy Broadway.
  • They built a four-story mansion on the tree-lined drive, then a place replete with coaches and foreign servants, and largely free from cars.
  • Julia had a medical degree; Isaac, a venture capitalist, invested in things like air compressors, submarines, and the “pickled energy” that powered electric vehicles."Julia Rice's campaign resulted in a federal law "quieting the whistles of ships in federal waters".Hart was the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a masters in geology from Columbia University.As an aviator, Hart made seven solo flights across the Atlantic Ocean and was awarded the 1975 Harmon Trophy. According to a 1960 obituary of Dorothy Rice Sims, Hart had "achieved note during the [1930s] by sailing across 30,000 miles of ocean in an 80-foot ketch".
  • Dorothy was survived by Marion and three others of their siblings.

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