physicist
Jacob Perkins.
American inventor, engineer and pioneer of steel engraving for banknotes (1766–1849)
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About Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819.
Everything about Jacob Perkins →- Occupation
- physicist, inventor, engineer, engraver
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 9, 1766
- Died
- July 30, 1849