biography
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| (1791–1874)
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| biography:
| Inventor and manufacturer, born in Townsend, Massachusetts, USA. A railroad superintendent and canal commissioner, he patented a locomotive steam engine in 1840. Settling in Pennsylvania, he later started a company, Asa Whitney & Sons, that became the country's largest manufacturer of train wheels. |
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