James Brown Herreshoff
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James Brown F. Herreshoff (1834–1930) was an American inventor and chemist with a number of American patents[1][2] related to chemicals and filed in the 1900s and 1910s: a coil-stream boiler, keels used on racing yachts, sliding seats on rowboats, mercurial anti-fouling paint, an apparatus for measuring heat of gases.[3][4]
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Born | (1834-03-18)March 18, 1834 Bristol, Rhode Island |
Died | December 5, 1930(1930-12-05) (aged 96) Riverdale, New York |
Education | Brown University |
Occupation(s) | Inventor, chemist |
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