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Thomas Jefferson Martin was born on 29 May 1842. [7] Martin was wounded at the battle of Shiloh. [8] In 1868, Martin married Evaline Moore Kidd. [8] Diagram from Thomas J. Martin's fire extinguisher patent from 1872.
One of the first fire extinguisher patents was issued to Alanson Crane of Virginia on Feb. 10, 1863. [3] Thomas J. Martin, an American inventor, was awarded a patent for an improvement in the Fire Extinguishers on March 26, 1872. His invention is listed in the U. S. Patent Office in Washington, DC under patent number 125,603.
Manby mortar, 1842 drawing. Captain George William Manby FRS (28 November 1765 – 18 November 1854) was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks and also the "Pelican Gun", the first modern form of fire extinguisher.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Fire extinguisher; Harry Mendell, U.S. – invented the first digital sampling synthesizer; Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – household appliances; Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner; Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test ...
Inventor Invented fire safe [52] Brown, Oscar E. ... Thomas J. 1842–1872 Inventor Awarded a patent in 1872 for improvements to the fire extinguisher [137] [138 ...
Thomas Marshall (fl. 1376), MP for Somerset; Thomas Marshall (fl. 1421), MP for Kingston upon Hull; Thomas Marshall (Virginia politician, born 1730) (1730–1802), American politician and soldier, father of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; Thomas Marshall (Virginia politician, born 1784) (1784–1835), grandson of above and ...
The Pyrene Company Limited from their beginning in 1914, until 1971 when they became Chubb Fire Security Limited, were among the world's leaders in the manufacture of fire fighting equipment. The name Pyrene was epitomised by their famous 'pump' extinguisher which was installed on public transport, commercial and private vehicles throughout the ...