Eliphalet Williams Bliss
Eliphalet Williams Bliss was an American manufacturer and inventor who established the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York. His company supplied the US Navy with Whitehead and BlissLeavitt torpedoes, as well as projectiles for its naval guns during the SpanishAmerican War, World War I and World War II.
Bliss was born on April 12, 1836 in Fly Creek, New York, United States, one of six children of physician John Stebbins Bliss and his wife, Ruby Ann Williams Bliss. The young Bliss was educated at public schools and at a seminary. He apprenticed at an Otsego County machine shop until he was twentyone years of age. He later moved to New England and found work at the Parker gun factory in Meriden, Connecticut.
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