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Allen Benjamin Wilson (1823–1888) was an American inventor famous for designing, building and patenting some of the first successful sewing machines. [1] He invented both the vibrating and the rotating shuttle designs which, in turns, dominated all home lockstitch sewing machines.
A needlegun scaler, needle scaler, or needle-gun is a tool used to remove rust, mill scale, and old paint from metal surfaces. [2] The tool is used in metalwork applications as diverse as home repair, automotive repair, and shipboard preservation.
The Torrington Company was a firm that developed in Torrington, Connecticut, originally called the Excelsior Needle Company. It was formed in 1866 around the new idea of using a "cold swaging" technique to create better sewing machine needles, as Torrington expanded, it began to produce other goods. Since WW2 they focused on producing needle ...
Walter Hunt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) was an American mechanical engineer.Through the course of his work he became known for being a prolific inventor.He first became involved with mechanical innovations in a linseed producing community in New York state that had flax mills.
Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726–1789) [1] was a German-American physician and inventor who was awarded the patent for the first known mechanical device for sewing in 1755. Weisenthal was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, but lived in England at the time of invention. He lived from 1755 to 1789 in Baltimore. [1]
The "American method" was reintroduced to the UK in the 1850s, when Colt executed on order on naval revolvers in Pimlico, and strikes of London and Birmingham gunmakers during the war made the War Office realize the usefulness of being able to employ low-skilled workers, so milling machines were bought and installed at the Royal Small Arms ...
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In 1941, his father retired as president of AMF and became chairman of the board of directors. Morehead replaced him as president and following the elder Patterson's death in 1943, Morehead replaced him as chairman of the board and was succeeded as president by Herbert H. Leonard (former president of the Consolidated Packaging Machinery Corporation of Buffalo, New York). [8]