Inventors.
Subject
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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Annette MacFarland, collector, family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064933777]
Identifier: 2317
Scope and content
Papers (1848-77) of Mrs. MacFarland's great-grandfather, William Parshall Springer are concerned with the invention and sale of the Springer Smut Machine for cleaning wheat and include patent papers, specifications, a testimonial letter, broadsides and trade cards advertising the machine, and daguerreotypes of the American Institute medal awarded to Springer for his invention; papers (1792-1943) of Springer's grandson and Mrs. MacFarland's father, William Alfred Comstock, a DeWitt, New York,...
Dates:
1792-1943.
C. G. Sargent's Sons Glass Plate Negatives
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6550 GPN
Dates:
undated
C. G. Sargent's Sons Records
Collection
Identifier: 6550
Abstract
Collection of records of the C,G. Chauncy & Sons, Chauncy Mills, James M. Sargent Co., Stony Brook Water Power Co., and personal papers of C.G. Sargent
Dates:
undated
Emmet Horton papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1801
Scope and content
Correspondence, bills and accounts, contracts and other legal documents, inventories, reports, specifications and drawings, American and foreign patent papers, and related items, Horton's papers deal largely with the patenting, manufacture, and sale of his inventions, which include a clapboard gauge, a reaper and binder, a berry harvester, a combined hammer and nail feeder, and a basket-making machine; the bulk, which pertains to the perfection of the basket-making machine and the...
Dates:
1870-1932.
Mark H. Newman Papers
Collection
Identifier: 6766
Abstract
Journal of Newman's trip to Europe with Howarth to introduce a newly-invented spindle, to negotiate for its manufacture and use in England, and to obtain continental patents along. Typewritten summary by Edna Brown.
Dates:
1839
Mead family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6069
Scope and content
The collection consists of 55 separate bound diaries (1850-1902, 1904-1905) written by Edwin Mead about his activities in the Presbyterian Church as an elder, trustee, and Sunday School superintendant; his observations concerning world, national, and local events; comments on lectures, social events, customs, religion, current issues, friends and relatives, and weather conditions. Also included are cash accounts in back of most of the diaries. There are also two bound diaries that were...
Dates:
1822-1905.