Alfred Ely Beach
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title:
Alfred Ely Beach
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Alfred Ely Beach was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which became the first subway in America. He was an early owner and cofounder of Scientific American and Munn & Co., the country's leading patent agency, and helped secure patents for Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and other innovators
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American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer (1826–1896)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ely_Beach
date created:
2004-06-23T07:47:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T16:44:48Z
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