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Samuel Batchelder

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31: 124:, he yet for many years continued his relations with the mills, being president of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, the Appleton Company, the Essex Company, the Everett Mills, the York Manufacturing Company, and the Exeter Manufacturing Company. The mills under his supervision had an aggregate capital of about $ 5,000,000. 132:
About 1832, he devised the first stop motion to the drawing frame, which afterward was used both in the United States and England. In 1832 he patented the steam cylinders and connections which became universally used in dressing frames for drying yarns. His greatest invention was the
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used for ascertaining the power for driving machinery. It was first used in the York Co. mills in 1837, and was considered preferable to any known apparatus for determining the power actually used in driving machinery.
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when he was young, and by 1808 he was an investor in a cotton factory there, the second that was erected in
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Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States
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A sketch of his life was published in pamphlet form (Lowell, 1885).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Responsibilities of the North in Relation to Slavery
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Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Cambridge, Massachusetts
New Ipswich
New Hampshire
Lowell, Massachusetts
Saco, Maine
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts State Legislature
dynamometer
Port Folio
Dictionary of American Biography
public domain
Wilson, J. G.
Fiske, J.
"Batchelder, Samuel" 
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
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1784 births
1879 deaths
19th-century American writers
19th-century American inventors
Members of the Massachusetts General Court
Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Businesspeople from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Politicians from Cambridge, Massachusetts
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American businesspeople
19th-century Massachusetts politicians

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