Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton Invented the Automatic Sliding Door

Trivia
on May 25, 2003

The breezes of Corpus Christi inspired Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton to invent an automatic sliding door in the mid-1950s. The two men saw that regular swing doors blew open in the wind, so they developed a sliding door that wouldn’t. Their company, Horton Automatics, was formed in 1960 and still operates in Corpus Christi today.

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