James Brown Herreshoff

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James Brown Herreshoff
Born(1834-03-18)March 18, 1834
Bristol, Rhode Island
DiedDecember 5, 1930(1930-12-05) (aged 96)
Riverdale, New York
EducationBrown University
Occupation(s)Inventor, chemist
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James Brown F. Herreshoff (1834–1930) was an American inventor and chemist with a number of American patents[1][2] related to chemicals and filed in the 1900s and 1910s: a coil-stream boiler, keels used on racing yachts, sliding seats on rowboats, mercurial anti-fouling paint, an apparatus for measuring heat of gases.[3][4]

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  2. ^ "John B.F. Herreshoff". Google Patents. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
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