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Harvey Hubbell II (born 1857, Connecticut) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. His best-known inventions are the U.S. electrical plug [ 1 ] and the pull-chain light socket . [ 2 ]
Hubbell Incorporated was founded as a proprietorship in 1888 by Harvey Hubbell II. Born in Connecticut in 1857, he was a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. Hubbell's best-known inventions are the U.S. electrical plug [3] and the pull-chain light socket. [4]
U.S. patent 774,250.The first US power plug and socket dated 1904. Several early American electrical plug and socket arrangements were invented by Harvey Hubbell.On 26 February 1903 he filed two patent applications featuring 2-pin plugs and adaptors for using his plugs with existing designs of lamp sockets and wall receptacles.
In 1903, Harvey Hubbell filled the U.S. patent 774,250, for a lightbulb socket adaptor and plug, also a standalone receptacle.The adaptor was screwed into the lightbulb socket, leaving a flat face with two holes to conveniently attach the plug.
Inventor Harvey Hubbell II invented the electric plug outlet in Bridgeport in 1912. [13] The Frisbie Pie Company was founded and operated in Bridgeport. [14] The world's first Subway restaurant opened in the city's North End in 1965. [15]
Queen Elizabeth II has stripped disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of the honorary CBE he was awarded in 2004.
Harvey Hubbell ; Collis Potter Huntington ; James M. Hyde (Mystic Bridge) Jeffrey R. Immelt ; Bradley S. Jacobs ; Betsey Johnson (Wethersfield) Alfred Winslow Jones ; Edward Calvin Kendall (South Norwalk) Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly) George E. Kimball (New Britain) Stephen Cole Kleene
Queen Elizabeth II and Harvey Weinstein. Shutterstock; Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock The film producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison in March after being found guilty of rape one month earlier.