Amos Whitney
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Amos Whitney
(born Oct. 8, 1832, Biddeford, Maine, U.S.died Aug. 5, 1928, Portland, Maine) U.S. manufacturer. He was apprenticed at age 13. In 1860, with Francis Pratt, he founded the firm of Pratt & Whitney, originally to manufacture thread spoolers. It later diversified into the manufacture of innovative designs of guns, cannons, sewing machines, and typesetting machines; instruments for measurement developed there proved of great value to science and industry. Today a separate company, formed from the toolworks in 1925, produces aircraft engines and space-propulsion systems as part of the United Technologies Corporation.
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Amos Whitney
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| Born | Amos Whitney October 8, 1832 Biddeford, Maine, United States |
| Died | August 5, 1920 (aged 87) Portland, Maine, United States |
| Occupation | Inventor, mechanical engineer |
| Partner | Francis A. Pratt |
Amos Whitney (October 8, 1832 – August 5, 1920) was a mechanical engineer and Connecticut inventor.
Born in Biddeford, Maine, in 1860 he partnered with Francis Pratt to organize the Pratt & Whitney company to manufacture machine tools, tools for the makers of sewing machines, and gun making machinery for use by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He employed W. A. Rogers and G. M. Bond in 1879 to develop the Rogers-Bond comparator, credited with rescuing mechanical science and industry from inconvenience. He also established policies leading to successful training of apprentices there and eventually became president, he retired at age 69 in 1901 when the company was acquired by Niles-Bement-Pond Company.
Amos Whitney died in Portland, Maine in 1920.
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