Amanda Jones
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
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]).
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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 |