Fred Morton Locke
Fred Morton Locke ( April 24, 1861 - April 15, 1930 ) was an American inventor and entrepreneur in the insulator industry.
His parents were William Morton Locke and Amy Jame Moore.
He came to Victor , New York , as a telegraph operator on the New York Central railroad . He thought the common glass insulators were unsuitable and began to experiment with porcelain. In 1894 he developed the first porcelain high-voltage insulator. In 1898 he founded his porcelain factory Victor Insulators, Inc. there, initially in a sawmill. In 1904 he withdrew from the company (or was pushed out by investors), leaving the management to his son Fred J. Locke. In 1905 John S. Lapp was one of the employees there.
He secretly founded the Lima Insulator Co. in Lima , New York in 1904 .
In 1914 he received a patent on borosilicate glass .
literature
- Elton Gish: Fred M. Locke: A Biography ; 1994
- Gerald Brown: The Story of Fred M. Locke and His Insulators ; 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Next Book of the Lockes by Jerry Norman Harrison, William Locke
- ↑ http://www.google.de/patents?id=6WZPAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=%22john+s.+lapp%22#PPA2,M1
- ↑ http://www.insulators.info/porcelain/books/locke.htm
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Locke, Fred Morton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Locke, Fred M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor and entrepreneur in the isolator industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1861 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1930 |