View Edwin A. Link 1904-1981 by Martha Clark Revised by Jeanne Eichelberger
| 1904 | Born in Huntington, Indiana, July 26 |
| 1910 | Moved with parents to Binghamton, New York |
| 1920 | Joined Link Piano Co., owned by his father |
| 1927-1929 | Developed first aviation trainer |
| 1929 | Formed Link Aeronautical Corp., Binghamton, New York, to market trainer |
| 1930 | Organized Link Flying School, Binghamton, New York |
| 1931 | Married Marion Clayton of Ilion, New York |
| 1935 | Founded Link Aviation Devices, Inc., Binghamton, New York, to manufacture instrument trainers; served as President until 1953 |
| 1938 | Son, William Martin Link, born |
| 1941 | Son, Edwin Clayton Link, born |
| 1947-1972 | Served as director of Mohawk (Robinson) Airlines, Inc. |
| 1952 | Purchased M.V. Sea Diver I |
| 1953-1956 | Served as Chairman of the Board of Link Aviation, Inc. |
| 1953 | Established Link Foundation |
| 1954 | Sold Link Aviation, Inc., to General Precision Equipment Corp. of New York City |
| 1955 | Researched the first voyage of Columbus, and headed expeditions to Haiti, the Bahama Islands, and Silver Shoals |
| 1958-1959 | Served as President of General Precision Equipment Corp. |
| 1958-1959 | Designed and built Sea Diver II |
| 1959 | Headed expeditions to Port Royal, Jamaica, and Yucatan, Mexico |
| 1960-1962 | Commanded archaeological expedition to the Mediterranean (Israel, Greece, Sicily) |
| 1960 | Designed and built submersible decompression chamber (SDC) |
| 1962 | Carried out first in a series of long deep dives at Villefranche, France, using SDC |
| 1963-1964 | Served as consultant to U.S. Navy, Deep Submergence Systems Review Group |
| 1964 | Supervised 432-foot dive in the Bahamas using SDC and Submersible, Portable, Inflatable Dwelling (SPID) |
| 1965 | Helped found Ocean Systems, Inc. |
| 1965-1972 | Served as chief marine consultant to Ocean Systems, Inc. |
| 1967 | Launched P-L#4 (Deep Diver) 4-man lock-out submersible |
| 1968-1972 | Served as consultant to the Link Division, The Singer Co., Binghamton, New York |
| 1969 | Developed Marine Science Center, Inc., at Link Port, Florida |
| 1970 | Invited the Harbor Branch Foundation to move to Link Port |
| 1971 | Launched Johnson-Sea-Link I, an innovative submersible |
| 1973 | Son, E. Clayton Link, died in submersible accident |
| 1973-1974 | Developed Cable Observation and Rescue Device (CORD) Sea Guardian |
| 1975 | Vice President and trustee of Harbor Branch Foundation, Inc. |
| 1975 | Launched the Johnson-Sea-Link II |
| 1975 | Semi-retired, but still actively pursued his interests at Link Port, Fla. |
| 1981 | Died September 7 in Binghamton, New York |
The Papers of Edwin A. Link
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