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On June 15, 1869, Vaughan was granted a patent for an improved post auger [2] and began producing custom tools. In 1871, much of the company was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire , and Bushnell invested additional funds for the company, which was incorporated in 1882 as the Vaughan and Bushnell Manufacturing Company.
The bush hammer is the patented title for this tool but has also been called different names over the years. The other most common name was the patent hammer which is described to have the same features and was used around the same time of the bush hammer. Another name this tool can go by is the axe hammer.
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York. [1] [2] Life and career. Personal life
Robert Wilson FRSE FRSSA (10 September 1803 – 28 July 1882) was a Scottish engineer, remembered as inventor of a special kind of a screw propeller, which he demonstrated in 1827 (although the first patent was awarded to another inventor in 1836).
Henry Marcus Quackenbush (April 27, 1847 – September 8, 1933), commonly called "H.M.", was an American inventor and industrialist who founded the H.M. Quackenbush Company [1] in Herkimer, New York. His company was widely known for its air rifles and for the invention of the metal, spring-jointed nutcracker. [2]
From January 2008 to June 2009, if you bought shares in companies when Eugene I. Davis joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -61.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -39.2 percent return from the S&P 500.
Simon Ingersoll (March 3, 1818 – July 24, 1894) was an American inventor who created the steam-powered percussion rock drill, which replaced the hand drill and was a major advancement in the mining and construction industries. [1] [2] The drill vastly increased efficiency. However, despite lower labor costs, there was no recorded upturn in ...
The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses ...