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Inventor
Highlights of History of American Business & Industry AmHert and BW |
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Name |
Field |
Description |
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| 1648 |
Winthrop, John |
Capitalist |
Saugus Iron Works, 1641 trip to UK, return with ironmasters.
Plant op from 1646-68, ended in financial failure |
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| 1776 |
Bushnell, David |
Submarine |
Revolutionary War and Washington in NY |
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| 1780 |
Gervinus |
Circular Saw |
Improved version by Newberry in 1807 |
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| 1783 |
Evans, Oliver |
Mechanical grist mill, vehicle |
From machine tool carders to clean cotton to milling, to steam
engines for water pumping, dredging, vehicles |
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| 1783 |
Stiegel, Henry William |
Glassmaking |
From ironmaker to glass after bring skilled UK glassmakers to
Lancaster |
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| 1784 |
Bramah, Joseph |
Safety Lock |
Led to James Sargent combination lock 1857, Sam Segal jimmy
proof locks 1916, Harry Soref Master Lock 1921 |
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| 1789 |
Slater, Samuel |
Textile Factory |
Providence Textile Mill, Moses Brown, Slater start 1st textile
mill owned by Brown, son-in-law William Almy |
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| 1791 |
Hamilton, Alexander |
Politician |
Father of US economic system via Report on Manufacturers
encouraging protection to develop independence |
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| 1793 |
Whitney, Eli |
Cotton Gin |
Later interchangeable parts via Springfield armory |
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| 1800 |
Hadfield |
Brickmaking |
Patented machine first |
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| 1804 |
E.I DuPont |
Gunpowder manufacture |
Reliable gunpowder from saltpeter along Brandywine |
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| 1806 |
Colgate, William |
Soap Factory |
NY mass production way before 1837 Procter & Gamble soap
and candle sales in Cincinnati |
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| 1807 |
Fulton, Robert |
Steamboat |
Followed Colonel Stevens 1804 lead and developed Clermont with
Robert Livingston as partner Mississippi market |
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| 1814 |
Lowell, Francis Cabot |
Textile Capitalist |
Waltham plant to Lowell girls, 1st large US business company |
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| 1814 |
Terry, Eli |
Clockmaker |
First mantel clock in CN |
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| 1817 |
Gilpin, Thomas |
Newprint |
Delawre machine made paper from cylinder of wires and felt
that picked up pulp to rolls for flattening. |
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| 1819 |
Wood, Jethro |
Plow |
First use of interchangeable parts |
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| 1820 |
Eastman, Robert |
Circular Saw |
Led to many saw making plants, most notably Disston
Philadelphia |
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| 1824 |
Schoenberger, Peter |
Capitalist |
Juanita Iron Workds in Pittsburg, later Wheeling 'Nail City' |
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| 1830 |
Cooper, Peter |
Fabricated Iron |
Canton and Trenton Iron Works to Atlantic telegraph cable, to
NY education |
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| 1831 |
Draper, John Williams |
Daguerreotype Plates |
Bromine, iodine fumes
improve Daquerre process led to Scovill metal daguerreotype plates, StL
Lambert glass plates |
| 1833 |
Geissenhainer, Frederick |
Anthracite for Iron |
To replace disappearing forests and charcoal, improved by
Peter Cooper |
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| 1834 |
Perkins, Jacob |
Refrigerator |
John Gorrie improved in 1844 based on Oliver Evans design |
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| 1835 |
Howe, John |
Straight Pins |
North Salem NY patent for mass production machine |
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| 1836 |
Pitt, Hiram and John |
Thresher |
Threshing separating and winnowing 200-250 bushels wheat a day
in Maine |
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| 1836 |
Colt, Samuel |
Six Shooter |
From whittler to revolving cylinder patent to Patent Arms
Manufacturing Co. |
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| 1840 |
Lane, John |
Plow Blade |
Blade steel for scouring matted roots of prairie grasses,
improved by blacksmith John Deere |
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| 1842 |
Dart, Joseph |
Granary Elevator |
Filled directly from hold of docked ship, first in Buffalo,
then cenetered in Chicago |
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| 1844 |
Steven, Robert (Col John son) |
T Rails |
T shaped rail cross section and iron rails made to T design at
Salvag Iron in Maryland |
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| 1845 |
Fitch, Stephen |
Turret lathe |
Robbins and Lawrence produced commercially by 1855 |
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| 1845 |
Niles Brothers |
Machine Tools |
Predated 1865 origins of Cincinnati Milacron |
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| 1846 |
Roebling, John |
Iron Cable |
From Hauling Ohio canal boats over Alleghenies to suspension
bridges and brooklyn |
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| 1846 |
Cornell, Ezra |
Telecom Capitalist |
Commercialized Morse, Joseph Henry, Alfred Vail telegraph
work, Western Union with Sibley in 1856 |
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| 1846 |
Kelly, William |
Bessemer Process |
Cold air blown on hot iron heated iron through carbonizing
sparks, Bessemer and ladle in 1856 |
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| 1846 |
Howe, Elias |
Sewing Machine |
Extended Hunt lock stitch machine, Singer improved further,
1854 Howe patent victory, 1856 patent pool |
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| 1847 |
Hoe, Robert |
Cylinder press |
type of revolving cylinder for continuous rotary press |
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| 1849 |
Corliss, George Henry |
Rotary valve steam engine |
Led to rediprocating engine |
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| 1850 |
Baldwin, Matthias |
Locomotive |
Former watchmaker increased steam pressure, sand box for
braking, cabs on locomotives, also Norris Phil plants |
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| 1851 |
Nrown, J.R. |
Vernier Caliper |
Measurements to thousandth of inch |
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| 1852 |
Yale, Linus |
Locks |
Interchangeable parts from precision tools |
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| 1853 |
Jerome, Chauncy |
Clocks Automation |
Substituted brass for wood watch gears, cost down to $1 |
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| 1855 |
Borden, Gail |
Milk Preservation |
Evaporation in vacuum for powdered milk |
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| 1857 |
Field, Cyrus |
Telegraph cable |
Underwater telegraph cable |
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| 1858 |
Mason, John |
Screw top jar |
Contribution to canning fruits and vegetables |
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| 1860 |
Pratt, Francis, Whitney, Amos |
Machine tools |
Precision machinery after Phoenix Iron in Hartford |
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| 1863 |
Craske, Charles |
Printing Plates |
Stereotype plates cast from impressions on papier-mache
matrices |
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| 1866 |
Nobel, Alfred |
Dynamite |
Explosive that could be safely controlled and detonated |
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| 1877 |
Selden, George |
Automobile |
Gasoline engine powered vehicle developed in Rochester, patent
granted in 1895 |
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| 1893 |
Duryea, Charles and Frank |
Automobile |
First US gasoline driven car in Springfield |
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| 1894 |
Haynes, Elwood |
Automobile |
Kokomo IN metalugist and petroleum engineer |
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| 1895 |
Lilienthal, Otto |
Airplane |
Auronautics through
tables |
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| 1896 |
Ford, Olds |
Automobile |
Autoas with internal combustion engines |
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| 1896 |
Langley, Samuel |
Airplane |
30 lb steam driven model flew for half mile over Potomac |
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| 1897 |
Winton, Alexander |
Auto Parts |
Cleveland bicycle repair to building bigger cars |
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| 1902 |
Studebaker brothers |
Automobile |
From chuck wagons, Conestogas, artillery wagons to elecrric
and then 16hp gasoline buggies |
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| 1904 |
Kettering, Charles |
Auto Parts |
From NCR elecric cash register to auto starter ignition system
as Delco head to Ethyl and tetraethyllead |
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| 1913 |
Curtiss, Glenn |
Airplane |
From motorcycle racer, to air engine builder to hydroplane |
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| 1920 |
Hughes, Howard |
Oil Drill Bits |
Developed and patented over 400 bits for drilling through rock
and earth |
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