biography
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| lived:
| (1796–1877)
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| biography:
| Inventor and manufacturer, born in Sussex Co, New Jersey, USA. He had his first experience of railroads while selling horses to the Baltimore & Ohio in 1828, and he soon designed an improved wheel for rail cars that set the standard for a full century. He worked for the B&O for a time before establishing his own railroad machinery business, later producing a streamlined hull design for steamships. He acquired some local fame as a philanthropist and as the writer of a series of unorthodox works on religion. |
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