Men Of Progress, 1862 Page 17
Winter 2000
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- William Morton , 1819-1868. Co-discoverer of anesthesia.
- James Bogardus , 1800-1874. Inventor whose varied output ranged from engraving machines to the cast-iron building.
- Samuel Colt , 1814-1862. Gun inventor and manufacturer.
- Cyrus McCormick , 1809-1884. Inventor and manufacturer of the reaping machine and other agricultural equipment.
- Joseph Saxton , 1799-1873. Inventor whose devices included tide gauges, hydrometers, and minting machinery.
- Charles Goodyear , 1800-1860. Inventor whose vulcanization process made rubber useful.
- Peter Cooper , 1791-1883. Built the first American steam locomotive; innovated in iron and glue manufacture; founded Cooper Union.
- Jordan Mott , 1799-1866. Inventor and manufacturer in iron and related technologies.
- Joseph Henry , 1797-1878. Physicist, electric-motor inventor, and first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Eliphalet Nott , 1773-1866. Stove inventor and president of Union College for sixty-two years.
- John Ericsson , 1803-1889. Developed marine steam engines and the screw propeller and designed the revolutionary warship Monitor .
- Frederick Sickels , 1819-1895. Inventor of cutoff valve crucial to later stationary steam engines.
- Samuel Morse , 1791-1872. Inventor of the electric telegraph.
- Henry Burden , 1791-1871. Inventor of horseshoe-making machine and agricultural machinery.
- Richard Hoe , 1812-1886. Inventor of the rotary printing press.
- Erastus Bigelow , 1814-1879. Inventor of power carpet looms.
- Isaiah Jennings , 1792-1862. Inventor of friction matches.
- Thomas Blanchard , 1788-1864. Inventor of numerous lathes and steam vehicles.
- Elias Howe , 1819-1867. Inventor of the sewing machine.
