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WHITTEMORE, Amos, inventor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19 April, 1759; died in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 March, 1828. He was the son of a farmer, and, after working for several years as a gunsmith, formed a partnership with his brother and others for the manufacture of cotton and wool cards. After engaging in this business for a short time he invented a machine for puncturing the leather and setting the wires, an operation that had previously been performed by hand. In experimenting for this invention he met with the greatest difficulty in bending the wires to a given angle after they were finally fastened in the leather, and was on the point of giving up the attempt, when in a dream he discovered the method of effecting it. The invention was patented in the United States in 1797, and Mr. Whittemore went to Eng-hind to secure his rights there, but was unsuccessful. In this country the invention was sold for $150,000, but afterward it was repurchased by his brother, Samuel, who then conducted the business. His last years were devoted to the construction of an ornery, in which every planet was to describe its own orbit, but he did not complete it.
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