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Armais Arutunoff Armais
Arutunoff ,
Armenier ,( Yerevan / Erivan ) später reicher Mann in Bartlesville , Oklahoma
1926 : Armais
Arutunoff,
factory owner , inventor of the submergible electrical pump and motor,
moves to Bartlesville , USA. He was the owner of one of the last black
and white pictures / images of Noahs Ark , taken on expedition 1916 . (
Noone knows where the pictures have gone .) He was born in Armenia (
Russia ) . BARTLESVILLE, Okla.--An incentive package topping...retain
500 manufacturing jobs here. Bartlesville
Development Corp. and Schlumberger...industry. Reda was founded in 1930
in
Bartlesville by
Armais Arutunoff ,
who was a Russian
Armais Arutunoff 1926 (Image and informations : From Internet) In
1916 Armais
Arutunoff,who
lived in Russia,developed an electrical submergible motor and pump. He
emigrated to America in 1923 and in 1928 moved to Bartlesville and
formed, with the backing of Phillips Petroleum company, the Bart
Manufacturing Company. His pump was crucial to the successful production
of thousands of oil wells. In 1930 the company became REDA
Pump,
an acronym for Russian Electrical Dynamo of Arutunoff. It occupied the
city's industrial park just northwest of downtown and the plant
eventually grew to nine acres, or 30 times its original size, through 42
additions over the years. REDA merged with TRW (another acronym for
Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge) in 1969 and later TRW REDA acquired the
Masonic Building that had been the headquarters of Cities Service. REDA
was divested by TRW in 1988 and became a division of Camco Inc. In the
late 1990s the company became Schlumberger-REDA Production Systems. In
2001 the city, motivated by the need to retain the 500 jobs at REDA,
announced an ambitious plan to rebuild the company's aging plant. The 16
different lease agreements for the land the plant occupied would be
consolidated into one lease, and the plant would be rebuilt in phases
resulting in a new city-owned and air-conditioned facility of over
300,000 square feet. But that plan was scrapped in early 2003 when
Schlumberger announced it would not rebuild the facility, but instead
only refurbish the existing structure. In 2004 Schlumberger sold the
170,000-square-foot nine-story Masonic Building to Rogers State
University.
http://esppump.com/
Anatoly Arutunoff (son
of Armais Arutunoff who
developed the REDA pump, an electrical submergible
motor and pump that revolutionized the oil patch ). (Here
is a magazine article I wrote on a couple of them, Gerald Westby
Geologist and his son Tryg Westby and his grandson Dane
Westby ), Armais
Arutunoff and his son Toly. Birth
Year - Death Year 1893
- 1978 Induction
Year 1974
Profession
Entrepreneur
Oklahoma
Connection. Settled
with his wife and daughter in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1928.
Armais Arutunoff built the first centrifugal pump while living in
Germany and built the first submergible pump and
motor in the United States while living in Los Angeles. No one would
even consider his inventions until friends at Phillips Petroleum Company
in Bartlesville encouraged him to form his own company there.
Armais Arutunoff was born in Tiflis, Russia,
and
immigrated to the United States in 1923. Before coming to the
U.S. he had formed a small company of his own, called Reda, to
manufacture his idea for electric submergible
motors. He later settled in Germany and then came with his wife and
one-year-old daughter to the United
States to settle in Michigan, then Los Angeles, and ultimately open his
company once again in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma. The petroleum industry immediately showed interest in his
inventions and he formed the Bart
Manufacturing Company. One of his pumps and motors were soon installed
in an oil well near Burns, Kansas – the first equipment of its kinds
to be used in a well. News spread quickly, and by 1930 the company was
expanded and renamed Reda Pump Company. It later became a division of
TRW Inc. in 1939. Arutunoff’s company held 60 patents for industrial
equipment, including the Electrodrill, which aided scientists in penetrating
the Antarctic ice cap for the first time in 1967. A joint resolution was
later passed by the Oklahoma House and Senate naming him “Mr.
Americanism of Bartlesville.” Concerning the Russian Expedition account, I see nothing stated by Armais Arutunoff that indicates half the Ark was underwater, or that it was broken in two pieces. It DOES say that about 1/4 of the barge was sticking out of the ice pack. It does not say that the other 3/4 of the barge was filled with ice. If it was, then there'd be no way to know how much was still inside the ice. The Russians also went inside the barge, measured the barge (possibly the entire thing from the inside), roughly measured the doorway of the barge (about 25 feet high x 25-30 feet wide), and found edible grain and honey inside the barge. They even took photos of the discovery, which Arutunoff was said to have kept and Dave GuMaer claims to have seen, but where they are now is unknown.
The
barge was said to be on a shelf overhanging a frozen lake below. It DOES
NOT say it was
submerged 70 feet under a frozen lake. The
only statement cited in reference to water was from a letter from Zalesskii
Nikaolai Valentinovich recounting
what his (or her) grandfather said, which was something about water
flowing from a crack UNDER the Ark. Russian Expedition You make a point
that the Ark was covered in pitch. I have no argument about that. The
problem is that over the course of 4000 or so years, the pitch would
harden, crack, and sluff off, much like old paint on a house. Because
the Ark would have been directly exposed to the elements (wind, rain,
sun, freezing and thawing temps) before becoming frozen in ice, I don't
think the pitch would last to preserve it clear up until now. Maybe a
few small rock-hard lumps could remain. But it certainly would have done
the job to help leak-proof the barge for a while. I also see you're
still avoiding to respond to the 7 points made on the Noah's Ark Search
website. Do you agree with those points or not? (Just above the links
for the "Mount Sabalan Photos" near the page bottom) Noah's
Ark Search - Mount Ararat
Your correct, it would be easy to think Ed Davis was speaking of such a
structure. However, he never spoke
of that, he did mention other things with greater detail. One was a cage
door he saw in the cave. I believe
he said it was 3 foot by 3 foot, and it was petrified, and as hard as
stone. He also said, it had somekind
of latch on it. Also, he stated he saw oil lamps and pottery. Such
accounts remind me of what David Duckworth said he saw, while working
for the Smithsonian back in 1968. There
are accounts of religious Pilgrims going up to the Ark to scrape pitch
off of it to be used as keepsakes.
That account came from the Greek Historian Herodotus. I believe the
pitch was only used to keep
the Ark safe until the ice covered it. And that ice I believe would
preserve it. We have found Mastondons
in ice that are thousands of years old, and no doubt, a large wooden Ark
would have an equal
chance at survival. Ice can build up very fast on Ararat, and it is
doubtful that the Ark was exposed to
the elements for a very long time after the flood. Conditions
change on Ararat, and the 70 feet of ice over the Ark was made by photo
intrepreter George Stephens
back around 1989. Stephens himself does not believe in Noahs Ark, yet he
has reported a very large
man-made object on Ararat, that is now broken in two.
When
the Russians went to Ararat, there had been a number of warm summers
which aided in the Ark being
exposed. These conditions are very rare, and that is why few have ever
gotten that close to view the Ark.
Book Reference : The Search for Noahs Ark /
Von Steve Boggess
http://www.noahsarksearch.com/Eyewitnesses.htm In 1916, immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a Russian engineer developed a submergible electric motor/centrifugal pump that could be used in water wells, mines, and ships. The inventor was Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff, born in the Caucasus Mountains in 1893. After immigrating to the United States in 1923, in 1928 he came to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to work for Phillips Petroleum Company. With Phillips's backing, he refined his pump for use in oil wells and first successfully demonstrated it in a well in Kansas. The device was manufactured by Bart Manufacturing Company, which in 1930 changed its name to REDA Pump, with the letters representing the words "Russian Electrical Dynamo of Arutunoff."
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