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JACOB PERKINS
BORN: July 1766 in Newburyport, Massachusetts 44
DEATH: July 1849 in London, England 45

ACHIEVEMENTS & INVENTIONS 46
  • A method of plating shoe-buckles
  • A machine that cut and headed nails in one movement
  • Improved bank-note engraving plates
  • The bathometer and pleometer
  • The refrigerator
  • Improved steam engines
  • Improved guns
     
Created By: Carol Haley     E-Mail: chale6kt@mwc.edu     Last Update: April 14, 2003