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Jacob Perkins

American inventor, engineer and pioneer of steel engraving for banknotes (1766–1849)

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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.

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Occupation: physicist, inventor, engineer, engraver
Citizenship: United States
Born: July 9, 1766
Died: July 30, 1849

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