James Brown Herreshoff
James Brown Herreshoff | |
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| Born | March 18, 1834 Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Died | December 5, 1930 (aged 96) Riverdale, New York |
| Education | Brown 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 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.