page_title: Andrew Jackson Beard
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Jackson Beard
caption_attribution_description: Diagram from US patent 594,059 showing an improved railway coupler design
context_page_description: Andrew Jackson Beard was an American inventor, who introduced two improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and 1899, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement.
context_section_description: Andrew Jackson Beard (1849–1921) was an American inventor, who introduced two improvements  to the automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and 1899, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement.
caption: The diagram from Beard's 1897 coupler patent.
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