Research Catalog

Title

Great inventors of New York's Capital District / Timothy Starr.

Author

Starr, Timothy, 1971-

Publication

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

160 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Inventors
• Inventions
• Biographies
• Inventors > New York (State) > Albany > Biography
• Inventions > New York (State) > Albany > History
• History
• New York (State) > Albany

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

ISBN

• 9781596291713
• 1596291710

LCCN

2010018204

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library