Hiram Moore, born in 1801 in New Hampshire. More developed the combine Harvester in 1834. Moore sent some to California to harvest over 100 acres of wheat in 1854. The first commercially successful model appeared around 1886.
William Austin Burt, born in 1792, invented the solar compass to solve problems of magnetic interference in 1835. Burt won an award form the Franklin Institute. It became the US Government's standard surveying tool after its patent expired. The solar compass was a complex device that did not suffer from magnetic field interference.
Francis Pettit Smith was born in England in 1808. Another inventor patented a propeller six weeks after smith did. Smith convinced Brunell to use the propeller instead of the paddlewheel. Francis Pettit Smith invented a successful screw propeller in 1835. The screw propeller had advantages over the paddlewheel. It was lighter, more efficient, and helped the ships not rock.
Charles Babbage was born in London in 1791. He became self-taught in math. Babbage envisioned a programmable, mechanical computer that could print tabular data accurately, without error. It even had data memory.
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