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  2. Thomas J. Martin - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Fire extinguisher - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. George William Manby - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    Inventor Invented fire safe [52] Brown, Oscar E. ... Martin, Thomas J. 1842–1872 Inventor Awarded a patent in 1872 for improvements to the fire extinguisher [137 ...

  6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of English inventors and designers - Wikipedia

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    Imran Chaudhri (1973– ) invented the user interface and interactions of the iPhone, also worked on the Mac, iPod, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch; John Clark (1785-1853) invented the first automated poetry generator, The Eureka, and patented a method to waterproof fabric for air beds and air cushions in 1813.

  8. Thomas Martin - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Acquin Martin (1850–1906), English industrialist in India; Thomas Commerford Martin (1856–1924), American electrical engineer and editor; Thomas "Doc" Martin (1864–1935), American physician in Taos County, New Mexico; Thomas Reed Martin (1866–1949), Florida architect; Thomas L. Martin (1885–1958), soil agronomist

  9. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Thomas J. Fogarty: 1934 Fogarty embolectomy catheter [171] 2002 Alois Langer: 1945 Defibrillator [172] 2002 Felix Hoffmann: 1868 Aspirin [173] 2002 Henry Bessemer: 1813 Bessemer process for steel production [174] 2002 Irwin Lachman: 1930 Catalytic converter [175] 2002 J. Presper Eckert: 1919 ENIAC [176] 2002 James J. Wynne: 1943 LASIK eye ...