SPAULDING, Edward, inventor, born in Milford, New Hampshire, 3 September, 1824. He was educated at the public school of his native town, and has since followed the trade of a blacksmith and machinist. Mr. Spaulding has invented a graduated elliptic spring for carrying heavy loads that is applicable to horse-ears or to freight-ears for which he received in 1880 a medal of excellence at the American institute fair in New York city. He has also patented a wrought-iron shackle which is used in conjunction with his spring, and a magnetic and electric ear telephone for enabling the deaf to hear more readily. Among his other inventions is a process for keeping eider sweet in any climate without bottling or preserving in a cool place. He has taken out about ten patents in the United States and eleven in various foreign countries.