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  2. James Albert Bonsack - Wikipedia

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    James A. Bonsack was born in eastern Roanoke County, Virginia.His father, Jacob Bonsack, owned a woolen mill where James learned about industrial machinery. In 1878 he was admitted to the Lutheran Roanoke College, but decided to withdraw to work on designing a cigarette rolling machine.

  3. American Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1882, two years after W. Duke, Sons & Company entered into the cigarette business, James Bonsack invented a cigarette-rolling machine. It produced over 133 cigarettes per minute, the equivalent of what a skilled hand roller could produce in one hour, and reduced the cost of rolling cigarettes by 50%. [5] [6] It cut each cigarette with ...

  4. James Buchanan Duke - Wikipedia

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    Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).

  5. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, there was a desire for not only snuff, pipes and cigars, but cigarettes appeared as well. Cigar rolling and even the creation of pipe tobacco at the time was labor-intensive and, without slave labor, innovation needed to occur. [22] Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, as shown on U.S. patent 238,640.

  6. Thomas Davenport (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    "The Blacksmith's Motor. Electricity, magnetism, and motion: A self-taught Vermonter pointed the direction for lighting the world." Mechanical Engineering, July 1999. Davenport's patent for the electric motor, issued in early 1837, Today in Technology History February 25 (direct link) Smalley and Davenport's shop

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  8. Timeline of the electric motor - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian, physicist and unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor; invented the first commutated rotary electromechanical machine with electromagnets. [3] [5] He invented the commutator. In 1828, Jedlik demonstrated the first device to contain the three main components of practical DC motors: the stator, rotor and commutator.

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