- Business - Janesville Sesquicentennial
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- Pen, buckle among Janesville inventions
- The invention most celebrated in a 1908 history of Rock County
was George S. PARKER's
- "Lucky Curve" fountain pen, which in 1908 was made
in the hundreds of thousands and "are sent throughout the
United States and all civilized countries."
- But it wasn't the only invention developed locally that the
historians chose to note.
- Soon after the railroad linked Janesville and Green Bay,
an excursion from here to Green Bay
- resulted in a bad collision and the serious injury of several
passengers. "As a result of his own experience on that occasion,
a Janesville man, Mr. MILLER, was led to invent and patent
the MILLER automatic car coupler and buffer."
- The device was designed to prevent the telescoping of cars
and reduce the force of concussion
- between them and to lessen the danger to brakemen. "Its
use has already extended throughout almost the whole railroad
world."
- H. Sherman WOODRUFF invented a tongueless buckle used
on harnesses and overshoes.
- S. D. LOCKE invented a wire binder for harvesters.
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