Jacob Perkins (July 9, 1766 – July 30, 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport...

Boston, Massachusetts. Jacob Perkins was enticed to come to England by Charles Heath, because of all the world's currency, Perkins' notes were considered...

than scaling. An early experimenter with high-pressure steam was Jacob Perkins. Perkins applied his "hermetic tube" system to steam locomotive boilers and...

Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by...

printing press for the Penny Black, the "D" cylinder press invented by Jacob Perkins and patented in 1819, is on display at the British Library in London...

Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, Perkins began his career as a teenager in summer stock programs...

Jacob Perkins (1766–1849) and Joseph Baker, both immigrants from America. Jacob Perkins After moving from Massachusetts to England in 1819, Perkins son...

related to Steam cannons. Mr Perkins extraordinary steam gun of 1824 article about an attempt by steam pioneer Jacob Perkins to produce a working steam...

Milestones: 1748 William Cullen demonstrates artificial refrigeration. 1834 Jacob Perkins patents a design for a practical refrigerator using dimethyl ether....

temperatures, and in 1834, an American expatriate in Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system. It...

machine based on the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle. 1809 – Jacob Perkins patented the first refrigerating machine 1810 – John Leslie freezes...

technologies of central heating. Perkins was born in Old Newburyport, Massachusetts, the second son of six children of Jacob Perkins and his wife, Hannah, née...

engraving was introduced in 1792 by Jacob Perkins (1766–1849), an American inventor, for banknote printing. When Perkins moved to London in 1818, the technique...

associated extensively with fellow inventor Jacob Perkins on steam engines and the potential for refrigeration. Perkins would later develop and build a refrigeration...

inventor who designed the first refrigeration machine in 1805. In 1834, Jacob Perkins built the first practical refrigerating machine using ether in a vapor...

Massachusetts. Associates included President William Henry Harrison and Jacob Perkins. His works are held at the American Antiquarian Society, Library of...

Perkins was his son. "Kansas Legislators: Past and Present • State Library of Kans". kslib.info. Hall, Ruth Gaines (December 7, 1985). "Jacob Perkins...

to fellow musician Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more...

had been granted in England and Scotland to American-born inventor Jacob Perkins, who became known as "the father of the refrigerator". Impoverished...

destruction. The uniflow engine was first used in Britain in 1827 by Jacob Perkins and was patented in 1885 by Leonard Jennett Todd. It was popularised...

musical instruments, as well as the Washington funeral medals made by Jacob Perkins of Newburyport. Vinton married Mary Atwell on May 17, 1797, in Providence...

of the first machines developed in the late 1700s in Massachusetts. Jacob Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts, invented a machine which could produce...

Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States...

rectangular cross section. The cut-nail process was patented in the U.S. by Jacob Perkins in 1795 and in England by Joseph Dyer, who set up machinery in Birmingham...

and soon became an expert. He later went to work at a nail factory of Jacob Perkins, first in Byfield and later in Amesbury, Massachusetts, when the company...

was built by Evans. In 1834, an American expatriate to Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system in the...

adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, for the production of which the Jacob Perkins printing process was used to deter counterfeiting and forgery. The wrappers...

was determined (rather inaccurately) by the time it took to surface. Jacob Perkins (1766–1849) proposed a bathometer based on the compressibility of water...

the first early insight into the second law of thermodynamics. 1834 – Jacob Perkins, obtained the first patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system...

oldest surviving wrought iron suspension bridge in continental Europe. Jacob Perkins introduces the uniflow steam engine to the United Kingdom. John James...