Title: Master inventor
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Inventors, Biography, Textile machinery, Design and construction, Industries, History
LC classification: TK140.C59 L86 2006