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The assertion by some historians that the Romans invented the "mule shoes" sometime after 100 BC is supported by a reference by Catullus who died in 54 BC. [6] However, these references to use of horseshoes and muleshoes in Rome may have been to the "hipposandal"—leather boots, reinforced by an iron plate, rather than to nailed horseshoes. [9]
Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York called the Burden Iron Works.Burden's horseshoe machine, invented in 1835, was capable of making 60 horseshoes a minute.
William Butler (militiaman) (1759–1818), U.S. militia captain killed in the Creek War, namesake of Butler County, Alabama William Orlando Butler (1791–1880), U.S. soldier in the War of 1812 and Mexican–American War, 1848 Democratic vice-presidential candidate
William Nelson (c. 1879 –1903), a General Electric employee, invented a new way to motorize bicycles. He then fell off his prototype bike during a test run. [2] Francis Edgar Stanley (1849–1918) was killed while driving a Stanley Steamer automobile. He drove his car into a woodpile while attempting to avoid farm wagons travelling side by ...
The novel was adapted for the stage a number of times, but the best known were by Charles Dance in 1836, which starred actor James Henry Hackett, and a version created in 1856 by Clifton W. Tayleure titled Horseshoe Robinson, or the Battle of King's Mountain, which included William Ellis as Robinson and George C. Boniface as Major Arthur Butler.
1630: Slide rule: invented by William Oughtred [389] [390] 1642: Mechanical calculator. The Pascaline is built by Blaise Pascal. [391] 1643: Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti. [392] 1650: Vacuum pump: Invented by Otto von Guericke. [393] 1656: Pendulum clock: Invented by ...
A scion of the Butler dynasty via the Earls of Ormond, he was born at Ballyslatteen, Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of Richard Butler and Ellen née Dillon. [1] The great famine of 1847 and scenes of suffering and eviction were amongst his earliest recollections.
The nailed iron horseshoe first clearly appeared in the archaeological record in Europe in about the 5th century AD when a horseshoe, complete with nails, was found in the tomb of the Frankish King Childeric I at Tournai, Belgium. [9] In Gallo-Roman countries, the hipposandal appears to have briefly co-existed with the nailed horseshoe. [1] [7]