Person Info
- Name: Amos WHITTEMORE
- Sex: M
- Birth: 19 Apr 1759 in Cambridge, Massachusetts b
- Death: 27 Mar 1828 in West Cambridge, Massachusetts d
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Children:
- Letitia WHITTEMORE
Bibliography
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Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Fiske and Fisk Family, Being the Record of the Descendants of Symond Fiske, Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, from the time of Henry IV to Date, including all the American Members of the Family, Chicago, IL: W. G. Conkey Co, 1896. Univ Colorado Norlin Library CS71.F538 1896. Reprinted: Bethany, OK: Richardson Reprints, 1985. NYPL APV (Fiske) 86-2061. Available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924029841024 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pierce FISKE p[0-9]*].
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Virtual American Biographies, Amos Whittemore, http://www.famousamericans.net/amoswhittemore/. Visited 3 Jun 2006. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: www.famousamericans.net/amoswhittemore/].
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Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
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- [Ref: Pierce FISKE p498]
Research Notes:
inventor of the celebrated machine for making cards [Ref: Pierce FISKE p498]
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WHITTEMORE, Amos, inventor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19 April,
1759; died in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 March, 1828. He was the son of
a farmer, and, after working for several years as a gunsmith, formed a
partnership with his brother and others for the manufacture of cotton and wool
cards. After engaging in this business for a short time he invented a machine
for puncturing the leather and setting the wires, an operation that had
previously been performed by hand. In experimenting for this invention he met
with the greatest difficulty in bending the wires to a given angle after they
were finally fastened in the leather, and was on the point of giving up the
attempt, when in a dream he discovered the method of effecting it. The
invention was patented in the United States in 1797, and Mr. Whittemore went
to England to secure his rights there, but was unsuccessful. In this country
the invention was sold for $150,000, but afterward it was repurchased by his
brother, Samuel, who then conducted the business. His last years were devoted
to the construction of an ornery, in which every planet was to describe its
own orbit, but he did not complete it. [Ref:
www.famousamericans.net/amoswhittemore/]
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