Biography of b f jackson inventory

Last Updated on March 12, 2015 by Paulette Brown-Hinds

Here and there a USA bondsman, in trying to overcome the drudgery of slavery, became an inventor. The Enslaved Joe Anderson assisted McCormick in developing the harvesting machine.

JH and SL Dickinson were granted 12 patents for mechanical appliances used in player piano machinery. AB Albert invented a cotton-picking machine.

Biography of b f jackson inventory

Shelby J. Davidson invented a mechanical tabulator or adding machine; Robert A. Pelham, a pasting machine; and Andrew F. Hilyer two hot-air register attachments. B.F. JACKSON invented a heat apparatus, a gas burner, an electrotyper’s furnace, a steam boiler, a trolley wheel controller, a tank signal, and a hydrocarbon burner system.

Frank J. Ferrell obtained 12 patents for improvements in valves for steam engines. George W. Murray patented 8 inventions of agricultural implements. In 1890 W.B. Purvis invented the pocket fountain pen, with its own ink reservoir that consistently fed ink to the pen’s point.

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