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I do not know enough about coupler engineering to make the updates, but this article appears to have some information that cannot be correct.
The above raises the key question:
How is Beard's design significant?
— MJBurrage( T• C) 17:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.narhf.org/nar01/NAR01awards_coupler.html
Was invented by a man named Janney. It is unclear what--if anything--Beard invented. BlackBerryHill ( talk) 04:08, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
The article says little is known of him after his patent on a variation of the Janney coupler. A primary source or raw data not published by a reliable secondary source for his bio information is the US Census. The 1900 US Census, which shows (Alabama > Jefferson > East Lake > District 95 > image 42) #444 at Ancestry.com: "Andy J. Beard," born May 1848 in Alabama, occupation "Inventor."Per the census, he had been married 30 years to his wife Eddie (born April 1845). In the 1910 Census, Alabama > Jefferson > Precinct 44 > District 0105, entry 275, he is living with his wife and four children and is a farmer. In the 1920 Census (Alabama > Jefferson > Birmingham > District 39) he is a widower and an inmate at the Alms House with no occupation. This is presented here just as a suggestion of what info one might look for in reliable secondary sources for. Edison ( talk) 20:22, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
It appears that Beard did have two patents each (not one each) on rotary engines (Andrew Beard) and couplings (Andrew Jackson Beard). That at least is established. I also found a reference for his induction to the National Inventors hall of fame (which is nice) but the biography there repeats the story that he invented the automatic coupler. It is likely therefore that the biography there is not properly researched, and the same must apply to most other biographies that copy from that.
I have found no reliable information about his agricultural inventions so far. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
04:03, 3 January 2016 (UTC).
"Beard's railroad car coupler included two horizontal jaws, which automatically locked together upon joining. Prior to Beard's coupler, railroad cars in the US were joined together by a large metal pin, which railway workers had to drop into place as the cars came together; miscalculations by workers coupling train cars together often led to serious injuries, including crushed fingers, hands, and arms. Beard's coupler was the first automatic coupler widely used in the US.. [1] In 1887, the same year Beard's first automatic coupler was patented, the US Congress passed the Federal Safety Appliance Act, which made it illegal to operate any railroad car without automatic couplers. [2]
Little is known about the period of time from Beard's last patent application in 1897 up until his death. [1]" Makes no sense and I blanked that paragraph with Peter Horn User talk 23:13, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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The "Jenny coupler" is in A Brief History of Entrepreneurship: The Pioneers, Profiteers, and Racketeers Who Shaped Our World (p. 175 if anyone has a copy - I don't) which makes me doubt the value of the book in general. We do however use it as a source. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC).
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I do not know enough about coupler engineering to make the updates, but this article appears to have some information that cannot be correct.
The above raises the key question:
How is Beard's design significant?
— MJBurrage( T• C) 17:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.narhf.org/nar01/NAR01awards_coupler.html
Was invented by a man named Janney. It is unclear what--if anything--Beard invented. BlackBerryHill ( talk) 04:08, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
The article says little is known of him after his patent on a variation of the Janney coupler. A primary source or raw data not published by a reliable secondary source for his bio information is the US Census. The 1900 US Census, which shows (Alabama > Jefferson > East Lake > District 95 > image 42) #444 at Ancestry.com: "Andy J. Beard," born May 1848 in Alabama, occupation "Inventor."Per the census, he had been married 30 years to his wife Eddie (born April 1845). In the 1910 Census, Alabama > Jefferson > Precinct 44 > District 0105, entry 275, he is living with his wife and four children and is a farmer. In the 1920 Census (Alabama > Jefferson > Birmingham > District 39) he is a widower and an inmate at the Alms House with no occupation. This is presented here just as a suggestion of what info one might look for in reliable secondary sources for. Edison ( talk) 20:22, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
It appears that Beard did have two patents each (not one each) on rotary engines (Andrew Beard) and couplings (Andrew Jackson Beard). That at least is established. I also found a reference for his induction to the National Inventors hall of fame (which is nice) but the biography there repeats the story that he invented the automatic coupler. It is likely therefore that the biography there is not properly researched, and the same must apply to most other biographies that copy from that.
I have found no reliable information about his agricultural inventions so far. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
04:03, 3 January 2016 (UTC).
"Beard's railroad car coupler included two horizontal jaws, which automatically locked together upon joining. Prior to Beard's coupler, railroad cars in the US were joined together by a large metal pin, which railway workers had to drop into place as the cars came together; miscalculations by workers coupling train cars together often led to serious injuries, including crushed fingers, hands, and arms. Beard's coupler was the first automatic coupler widely used in the US.. [1] In 1887, the same year Beard's first automatic coupler was patented, the US Congress passed the Federal Safety Appliance Act, which made it illegal to operate any railroad car without automatic couplers. [2]
Little is known about the period of time from Beard's last patent application in 1897 up until his death. [1]" Makes no sense and I blanked that paragraph with Peter Horn User talk 23:13, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
{{
cite book}}
: |last=
has numeric name (
help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (
link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
The "Jenny coupler" is in A Brief History of Entrepreneurship: The Pioneers, Profiteers, and Racketeers Who Shaped Our World (p. 175 if anyone has a copy - I don't) which makes me doubt the value of the book in general. We do however use it as a source. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC).