Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. 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 twentyone American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813.
Jacob married on Nov. 11, 1790 to Hannah Greenleaf of Newbury and they had nine children in his family. His second son, Angier March Perkins , also born at Newburyport, went to England in 1827, and was in partnership with his father . His grandson, Loftus Perkins , most of whose life was spent in England, experimented with the application to steam engines of steam at very high pressures, constructing in 1880 a yacht, the Anthracite.
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