Walter Hunt

Walter Hunt ( born July 29, 1796 in Martinsburg (New York), † June 8, 1859 in New York City ) was an American inventor.

Walter Hunt lived and worked as a mechanic in New York. He made a name for himself by several inventions such as:

  • The safety pin (1849 )
  • A flat- spinner,
  • A knife grinder,
  • The tram bell (formerly the horse railway bell )
  • A coal-fired furnace,
  • An artificial stone,
  • A street-cleaning machine,
  • The tricycle,
  • A Eispflug for ships
  • A fountain pen
  • The sewing machine (1834 ), which he did not bring up and running,
  • The cartridge Rocket Ball,
  • A forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle -.

Some of these inventions measured Hunt not the later importance to when he invented. From the safety pin, which he patented in the U.S. on April 10, 1849, he held little and sold it for $ 400 to a man he once owed ​​$ 15. Lest the sewing machine could lead to unemployment of seamstresses, he hesitated with patenting and failed years later in a legal dispute with Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine again.

Walter Hunt is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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