# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seth-boyden
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:36.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seth-boyden"
name: "Seth Boyden"
slug: "seth-boyden"
description: "Seth Boyden was an American inventor. Boyden perfected the process for making patent leather, created malleable iron, invented a nail-making machine, and built his own steamboat. He is also credited with having invented a cut off switch for steam engines and a method for producing zinc from ore. At the time of his death, he told friends that he had, even at that time, enough experiments on hand to last two whole lifetimes."
tagline: "American inventor (1788-1870)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seth_Boyden_photograph.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1788-11-17"
deathDate: "1870-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.01116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "سيث بويدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Boyden"
    title: "Seth Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Boyden"
    title: "Seth Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Boyden"
    title: "Seth Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Boyden"
    title: "Seth Boyden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7456443"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump