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Whitcomb L. Judson

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United StatesScientistsLived 1846 to 1909 · aged 63
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Whitcomb L. Judson was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which were on pneumatic street railway innovations.

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Judson's original 'clasp locker' patent, 1893Judson's original 'clasp locker' patent, 1893Judson's improved 'clasp-locker' fastener, 1893Judson's improved 'clasp-locker' fastener, 1893

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Whitcomb L. Judson was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which were on pneumatic street railway innovations. Six of his patents had to do with a motor mechanism suspended beneath the rail-car that functioned with compressed air. He founded the Judson Pneumatic Street Railway.

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United States
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Lived 1846 to 1909 · aged 63
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