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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and ...
George Pullman (1831–1897), U.S. – Pullman sleep wagon; ... Timeline of historic inventions; List of African-American inventors and scientists; References
George E. Smith: 1930 Charge-coupled device [265] 2006 George Henry Corliss: 1817 Improvements to steam engine [266] 2006 George Hulett: 1846 Loading and unloading machine [267] 2006 George Pullman: 1831 Pullman car [268] 2006 Gideon Sundback: 1880 Zipper [269] 2006 Gottlieb Daimler: 1834 Design of automobile and motorcycle engines [270] 2006 ...
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works in 1893. The Pullman Company, [1] founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
The sleeping car did not become commercially practical until 1857 when George Pullman invented the Pullman sleeping car. [82] 1839 Vulcanized rubber. Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving heat and the addition of sulfur or other equivalent curatives. It is a chemical process in which polymer molecules are linked ...
Nature has always been a powerful source of inspiration, with inventors diving into the world around them for new ideas. From the anatomy of animals to the behavior of plants, some of our most ...
George Pullman – Inventor of the Pullman sleeper (a luxury sleeping car) and founder of the Pullman Company; Leland Stanford – One of the Big Four co-founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, governor of California, and founder of Stanford University