Master inventor
Subtitle: how Howard Colman created a multi-national corporation
By: Jon Lundin.
Edition: 1st. ed.
Publisher: Amphitryon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rockford, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780979162206
Subjects: Colman, Howard Darling, 1873-1942; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Textile machinery -- Design and construction; Industries -- Illinois -- Rockford; Rockford (Ill.) -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: Rockford historian, Jon Lundin, has written the life of Rockford's twentieth century inventor and industrialist Howard Colman, founder of Barber-Colman Company, Rockford's first multinational corporation.  He is credited with 149 patents, but he inspired or worked on many more inventions.   He was a creative genius, an inventor of Thomas Edison's caliber.   Colman invented a warp drawing mechanism and numerous kinds of knotters for use in textile manufacturing.  He produced drawings for a jet engine in the 1920's, and invented and patented a dot matrix device that was used decades later in digital computer technology.
Notes: Includes index.