Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones, 1879

Amanda Theodosia Jones (born October 19, 1835 East Bloomfield, Ontario County , † March 31, 1914 ) was an American author and inventor .

Life and accomplishments

She started working as a teacher at the age of 15. From 1854 she wrote her first work for Ladies Respiratory , a Methodist magazine. She later made a name for herself as a writer of war songs about the American Civil War and as a poet.

After the death of her brother in 1857, Jones stopped teaching and became an inventor. With the help of her brother-in-law or cousin Leroy C. Cooley (from 1874 professor of physics and chemistry at Vassar College ) she devised a vacuum process for preserving food, for which she received a patent in 1873. She also invented a vacuum process for drying food. However, a canning factory she founded was unsuccessful. In the 1880s, she invented an oil burner in Pennsylvania .

literature

Doris Simonis: Inventors and Inventions ; P. 899f ( online )
Autumn Stanley: Mothers and daughters of the invention: notes for a revised history of technology ; P. 64 ( online )

Web links

The American Experience

Individual evidence

^ Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, Radcliffe College: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Harvard University Press, 1971, ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5 ( google.de [accessed January 14, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Jones, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jones, Amanda Theodosia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Bloomfield, Ontario County
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1914

[1] Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, Radcliffe College: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Harvard University Press, 1971, ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5 ( google.de [accessed January 14, 2017]).