Jw smith inventor biography
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James Smith (inventor)
James Smith (3 January 1789, Glasgow – 10 June 1850, Kingencleuch near Mauchline, age 61)[1] was a Scottish inventor whose inventions include a reaping machine, a subsoil plough and the first endless chain of flats for carding.
Smith's father, a self-made Glasgow businessman, died when he was two months old; his mother went to live with her brother, a friend and pupil of Richard Arkwright, and managing partner of cotton-works at Deanston.[1] Smith attended Glasgow University before entering his uncle's factory and becoming manager aged 18.[1] Aged 24, his invention of the reaping machine won him a medal from the Imperial Agricultural Society of St Petersburgh.[1] In 1823 Smith came into possession of his uncle's farm, and set about systematically draining the soil and working it with a subsoil plough. In 1831 he published his agricultural recommendations as a small pamphlet, Thorough Draining and Deep Working, w
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James McCune Smith
American physician (1813–1870)
James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland, where a building has been dedicated to him.[3] After his return to the United States, he also became the first African American to run a pharmacy in the nation.
In addition to practicing as a physician for nearly 20 years at the Colored Orphan Asylum in Manhattan, Smith was a public intellectual: he contributed articles to medical journals, participated in learned societies, and wrote numerous essays and articles drawing from his medical and statistical training. He used his training in medicine and statistics to refute common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. He was invited as a founding member of the New York Statistics Societ
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Joseph H. Smith
An american forskare and uppfinnare, who created and patented the lawn sprinkler in 1897 and later patented an improvement of the original design.
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