Frank McDowell Leavitt

Frank McDowell Leavitt
BornMarch 3, 1856
Athens, Ohio
DiedAugust 6, 1928
Scarsdale, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEngineer
SpouseGertrude Goodsell
Parent(s)John McDowell Leavitt and Bethia Brooks Leavitt
Engineering career
ProjectsDeveloped the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo

Frank McDowell Leavitt (1856–1928) was an American engineer and inventor. Leavitt devised one of the earliest machines for manufacturing tin cans[1] and later invented the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo, the chief torpedo used by United States Navy in World War I.[2] Leavitt was part of an emerging cadre of American engineers whose design feats were putting United States manufacturing might on the map at the dawn of the twentieth century.[3]

  1. ^ The Federal Reporter, Vol. 67, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, May-July 1895, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn., 1895
  2. ^ Compressed Air Magazine: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Useful Application of Compressed Air, William Lawrence Saunders (ed.), New York, 1903
  3. ^ "Mechanical Engineers, in Big Demand, Win Quick Success". The New York Times. October 19, 1913.