Beach, Alfred Ely (01 September 1826–01 January 1896), magazine publisher and inventor, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Moses Yale Beach, a newspaper publisher, and Nancy Day. His father was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker but rose through a series of businesses to become owner and publisher of the New York ...
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Beach, Alfred Ely (01 September 1826–01 January 1896), magazine publisher and inventor
Jack Colldeweih
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Beach, Moses Yale (1800-1868), journalist and inventor
James L. Crouthamel
Beach, Moses Yale (07 January 1800–19 July 1868), journalist and inventor, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, the son of Moses Sperry Beach and Lucretia (Stanley) Yale, farmers. (Some sources cite 15 January as his birth date.) With some common school education, young Moses demonstrated mechanical ingenuity and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at age fourteen. By working overtime he was able to buy his freedom in four years, and he set up a cabinet shop of his own in Northampton, Massachusetts. He married Nancy Day of Springfield in either 1819 or 1821 (sources conflict); the couple would have eight children. (It is possible that he married a second time, but the evidence is not firm.)...
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Gernsback, Hugo (1884-1967), publisher and inventor
Richard Bleiler
Gernsback, Hugo (16 August 1884–19 August 1967), publisher and inventor, was born Hugo Gernsbacher in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, the son of Moritz Gernsbacher, a vintner, and Berta Dürlacher. Gernsback was precociously interested in electricity, and his parents enrolled him in the École Industrielle in Luxembourg; a possibly apocryphal story states that by the age of thirteen he was earning money as an electrical contractor and had received special dispensation from Pope Leo XIII to install electric bells in the Carmelite convent of Luxembourg City. He later studied languages in a Belgian boarding school before spending three years at the Technikum in Bingen, Germany, inventing a dry-cell battery that was the most powerful in the world but too costly to market....
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Howey, Walter Crawford (1882-1954), journalist and inventor
Robert L. Gale
Howey, Walter Crawford (16 January 1882–21 March 1954), journalist and inventor, was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the son of Frank Harris Howey, a helper in a drug, paint, and wallpaper store and later a businessman, and Rosa Crawford. He attended public schools and, ambitious to become an artist, took classes at the Chicago Art Institute in 1899 and 1900. Returning to Fort Dodge, he was hired as editor of the ...
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Sholes, Christopher Latham (1819-1890), printer, journalist, and inventor
Guillaume de Syon
Sholes, Christopher Latham (14 February 1819–17 February 1890), printer, journalist, and inventor, was born on a farm near Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Orrin Sholes, a cabinetmaker; his mother’s name is not known. His parents moved soon after to Danville, Pennsylvania, where he attended school until age fourteen. He worked as an apprentice printer for the editor of the ...
