Complex sentence: Jacob Perkins (9 July 1766--30 July 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was apprenticed to a goldsmith.
Split into simpler sentences: Jacob Perkins (9 July 1766--30 July 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith.