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Title
Great inventors of New York's Capital District
Author
Starr, Timothy, 1971-
Publisher:
History Press,
Pub date:
2010.
Pages:
160 p. :
ISBN:
9781596291713
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Control number:
ocn615339104
ISBN:
9781596291713
ISBN:
1596291710
Local control number:
(OCoLC)615339104
Call number:
609.22747 S796 215-1441
Author:
Starr, Timothy, 1971-
Title:
Great inventors of New York's Capital District / Timothy Starr.
Imprint:
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.
Physical description:
160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158).
Contents:
Introduction -- Working the land -- Peter Dederick: perpetual hay press -- James Covert: bolt harness snap -- Lewis Aspinwall: potato planters and diggers -- John Griswold: wire straightener -- George Westinghouse Sr.: agricultural machines -- Seth Wheeler: farm machinery and perforated paper -- Hauling the world -- Barnabas Langdon: horse-powered ferry -- Francis Cole: locomotive superheater -- Albert Pitkin: compound engine -- James McElroy: car heating systems -- George Westinghouse Jr.: railroad air brake -- Heating the world -- Eliphalet Nott: anthracite coal stove -- The Rathbone family: acorn stove -- Dennis Littlefield: Morning Glory and West Shore range stoves -- Philo Stewart: the Stewart stove -- Lighting the world -- Joseph Henry: electromagnet -- Charles Steinmetz: alternating current -- Ernst Alexanderson: high-frequency alternator -- William Coolidge: ductile tungsten -- William Emmet: electric turbines for warships -- Irving Langmuir: incandescent light bulbs -- Fire and water -- Lysander Button: hand and steam fire engines -- George Eddy: Mohawk hydrant and Eddy valve -- Henry Ludlow: straight-way slide-stop valve -- James Knibbs: the Knibbs run around -- Men of steel -- Horatio Spafford: iron and steel manufacture -- Henry Burden: horseshoe machine -- John Winslow: armor plating -- James Blessing: steam trap -- The collar city -- Sanford Cluett: preshrinking cotton fabrics -- Howard Kennedy: shirts and collars -- James Pine: collar and cuff machines -- Thomas Wiles: ironing machines -- The spindle city -- Timothy Bailey: power knitting loom -- George Campbell: winding bobbin machine -- Luke Kavanaugh: knitting burr -- Clark Tompkins: upright rotary knitting machine -- Arts and entertainment -- John Hyatt: celluloid for billiard balls -- James Gray: piano attachment -- Henry Miller: sound machines -- The Meneely family: bells and bell fixtures -- Arthur Knight: the Schenectady putter -- Appendix: Contents by town.
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Subject:
Inventors--New York (State)--Albany--Biography.
Subject:
Inventions--New York (State)--Albany--History.
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Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2010018204-b.html
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Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1209/2010018204-d.html
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