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5 unusual facts about American Inventor


American Inventor

6-In-1 Convertible Brassiere: A convertible brassiere that accommodates the full wardrobe of small frame women with a "C" cup or above.

Janusz Liberkowski, who invented a new type of child safety seat based on the human womb called the Anecia Safety Capsule, was declared the first season's winner in a live episode on May 18, 2006.

It was conceived by UK entrepreneur Peter Jones, who appears on the British version of the somewhat similar programme Dragons' Den, a format originated in Japan where it is owned by Sony.

Matt Gallant

Eventually, Gallant hosted a few shows, including X-Treme Energy, The Planet's Funniest Animals, and American Inventor.

Patton Design, Inc.

Patton Design was also featured on ABC's American Inventor and represented the million dollar winner with the "Anecia Survival Capsule", the second place winner with "The WordAce", as well as the third place winner with "The Catch Elite".



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Arthur Knight

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Capewell

George Capewell (1843–1919), American inventor, born in Birmingham, England

Carl Sontheimer

Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor.

David Dunbar

David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929), Scottish-born American inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company

Edwin R. Fellows

Edwin R. Fellows (May 29, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry.

Eli Janney

Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), American inventor of the Janney coupler used in rail transport

Flash freezing

American inventor Clarence Birdseye developed the quick-freezing process of food preservation in the 20th century.

Frank Mann

Franklin Ware Mann, (1856–1916), American inventor and ballistics scientist

Gamow

Igor Gamow (born 1936), American inventor, son of George Gamow

George Ferris

George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (1859–1896), American inventor of the Ferris wheel

George Sperti

George Speri Sperti was a famous Italian-American inventor, best known for creating Preparation H.

George Stephen

George A. Stephen (c.1922–1993), American inventor, entrepreneur, and the founder of Weber-Stephen Products Co.

Henry Beecher Dierdorff

Henry Beecher Dierdorff (January 29, 1851 in Seville, Ohio – January 26, 1935 in Columbus, Ohio) was an American inventor in the field of mining.

Henry Bishop Horton

Henry Bishop Horton (1 September 1819 Winchester, Connecticut - 3 December 1885 Ithaca, New York) was an American inventor, remembered chiefly for his inventions in automatic music players and clock-making.

James Bryce

James W. Bryce (1880–1949), American inventor and pioneer in magnetic data recording

James Richard Haskell

James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".

James V. Lafferty

(1856-1898) was an Irish-American inventor, most famous for his construction of Lucy the Elephant, the Elephantine Colossus and Old Dumbo.

Joseph A. Ball

Joseph Arthur Ball (August 16, 1894-August 27, 1951) was an American inventor, physicist, and executive at Technicolor.

Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil (born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist

Långban

It is the birthplace of Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson

Leon Leonwood Bean

Leon Leonwood Bean (February 6, 1872 – February 5, 1967) was an American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean.

Linus Yale

Linus Yale, Sr. (1797–1858), American inventor and manufacturer of pin-tumbler locks.

London Calling!

American inventor Hammond had earlier developed a Teleview sequential viewing system for use as part of the successful productions of the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931).

Meucci

Antonio Meucci (1808–1889), Italian-American inventor of telephony

New Market, Maryland

John Vincent Atanasoff, Bulgarian-American inventor, created the first binary computer, Atanasoff–Berry Computer, writing the concept in 1937 on a cocktail napkin after having a few glasses of scotch whiskey.

Obed Hussey

Obed Hussey (October 7, 1790 – August 4, 1860) was an American inventor, born in Hallowell, Maine to Quaker parents, of a farm machine called a reaper.

Pfann

William Gardner Pfann (1917–1982), an American inventor and materials scientist

Ray Butts

Joseph Raymond "Ray" Butts (September 22, 1919 - April 20, 2003), in Ethel, Mississippi) was an American inventor and engineer best known for designing several devices that influenced the evolution of electrified music, in particular those used with the electric guitar.

René Barrientos

He cooperated with Frederick Pittera, an American inventor and manufacturer of small farm tractors (the chairman of The Tiger Tractor Corp., Keyser, West Virginia, which in 1962 was nominated by the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Presidential 'E' Award for Exports, was endeavoring to introduce a new cooperative farming concept to eliminate world famine with his U.S.-patented small farm tractor equipment.

Rezin Bowie

Rezin Pleasant Bowie (September 8, 1793 – January 17, 1841) was an American inventor and designer of the Bowie knife.

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse (August 19, 1911- July 1, 1988) was an American inventor and scientist credited with invention of the orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Samuel Ruben

Samuel Ruben (14 July 1900 - 16 July 1988) was an American inventor who made lasting contributions to electrochemistry and solid-state technology, including the founding of Duracell.

Sauder

Erie J. Sauder (1904–1997), American inventor and furniture-maker

Semon

Waldo Semon (1898–1999), renowned American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama

Sholes

Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor of one of the early typewriters

Starlight Park

After being constructed by Irish-American inventor John Philip Holland in 1888, the Holland became the first submarine commissioned by the United States Navy.

Stephen Decatur Engle

Stephen Decatur Engle (December 18, 1837 – January 24, 1921) of Sybertsville, Pennsylvania was an American inventor best known as the creator of the Engle Monumental Clock, a clockwork described at the time as The 8th Wonder of The World.

Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace

Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace is the historic house in which the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847.

Thomas Jeffery

Thomas B. Jeffery (1845–1910), American inventor and manufacturer of bicycles and early automobiles

Victor Animatograph Corporation

The Victor Animatograph Corporation was a maker of projection equipment founded in 1910 in Davenport, Iowa by Swedish-born American inventor Alexander F. Victor.

Westlock, Alberta

Edson, Alberta already existed, so the site was called Edison by its Irish-Canadian founders, after the American inventor Thomas Edison.

William Marsh

W. W. Marsh (William Wallace Marsh, 1835–1918), American inventor and businessman