A. Baldwin Wood

1879-1956 Inventor, from New Orleans USA

Invented efficent low maintaince high volume pumps, including The Wood Screw Pump (1913) and The Wood Trash Pump (1915). Designed the drainage and pumping systems that allowed large areas of land to be reclaimed from the Zuider Zee in Holland (see also Zuiderzee Works). Reclaimed from swamp and made usable much of of the land now occupied by the city of New Orleans.

Some of his pumps have been in almost continuous use in New Orleans for over 80 years, and new ones continue to be built from his designs.