Devises swimming fins to make himself go faster in the waters of Boston Harbor Is apprenticed to his brother James as a printer Writes “Silence Dogood” essays Runs away to Philadelphia and takes job ...

THE name at the head of this paper is that of a man who probably has had less popular recognition than any other great inventor ; yet to this comparatively unknown man the country owes the first ...

On May 22, 1849, only three months after the native Kentuckian celebrated his 40th birthday, the United States Patent Office issued Patent No. 6,469 for a device "buoying vessels over shoals." The ...

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