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Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 [1] – February 23, 1919) was an American inventor [5] and Union sailor in the American Civil War. [7] [8] He was the first crew member aboard the USS Housatonic to spot the H.L. Hunley before it sank the USS Housatonic.
Robert F. Flemming Jr. (1839–1919), American inventor and sailor Robert Fleming Gourlay (1778–1863), writer, reformer and agriculturalist Robert Fleming Rich , American politician
Robert Swanson (1905–1994), Canada – invented and developed the first multi-chime air horn for use with diesel locomotives Andrei Sychra (c.1773/76–1850), Lithuania /Russia, Czech descent – Russian seven-string guitar
Robert Flemming, born in the diocese of York, was likely an illegitimate son of Robert Flemming, esquire, of Wath, near Ripon (d.1459). His aunt, Cecily Fleming, married, in 1407, Robert Waterton, 'Henry IV's esquire and right-hand man'. His uncle, Richard Fleming (d.1431), was Bishop of Lincoln and the founder of Lincoln College, Oxford. [1 ...
Joseph Mortimer Granville (4 May 1833, Devonport – 23 November 1900, London) was an English physician, author and inventor known for having first patented the electromechanical vibrator for relief of muscle aches, exclusively for male patients.
George William Fullerton (March 7, 1923 – July 4, 2009) was a longtime associate of Leo Fender and, along with Fender and Dale Hyatt, a co-founder of G&L Musical Instruments.
At the insistence of his wife, Ottilia Kühle (daughter of the Maschinentischler [machine carpenter] and maker of pedal harps Karl Kühle in Vienna [8]), Martin moved the guitar shop in 1838 to Nazareth, Pennsylvania where it is still located.
Joseph Kekuku‘upenakana‘iapuniokamehameha Apuakehau, Jr. (1874/75 – January 16, 1932), better known as Joseph Kekuku, was a Hawaiian-American musician and the inventor of the steel guitar. He discovered the sound of the steel guitar after tinkering with an old Spanish guitar.