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• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

JACOB See also:

• PERKINS, CHARLES CALLAHAN (1823-1886)
• JACOB PERKINS (1766-1849)

PERKINS (1766-1849)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American inventor and physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NEWBURYPORT

Newburyport, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, in 1766, and was apprenticed to a See also:

• GOLDSMITH
• GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 1763–1846)
• GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728–1774)

goldsmith . He soon made himself known by a variety of useful See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical inventions, and in 1818 came over to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England with a See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan for See also:

• ENGRAVING

engraving See also:

• BANK

bank-notes on See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, which ultimately proved a See also:

• SIGNAL

signal success, and was carried out by See also:

• PERKINS, CHARLES CALLAHAN (1823-1886)
• PERKINS, JACOB (1766-1849)

Perkins in See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership with the See also:

• ENGLISH

English engraver See also:

• HEATH
• HEATH, BENJAMIN (1704-1766)
• HEATH, WILLIAM (1737—1814)

Heath . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief contribution to physics See also:

• LAY

lay in the experiments by which he proved the compressibility of See also:

• WATER

water and measured it by a piezometer of his own invention (see Phil . Trans.,1820, 1826) . He retired in 1834, and died in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 3oth of See also:

• JULY

July 1849 . His second son, ANGIER See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

MARCH PERKINS (1799?-1881), also born at Newburyport, went to England in 1827, and was the author of a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of warming buildings by means of high-pressure See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam . His See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson, See also:

• LOFTUS, ADAM (c. 1533-1605)

LOFTUS PERKINS (1834-1891), most of whose See also:

• LIFE

life was spent in England, experimented with the application to steam engines of steam at very high pressures, constructing in 188o a yacht, }t~he " See also:

• ANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpaE, coal)

Anthracite," whose engines worked with a pressure of 500 rb to the sq. in .