23 Facts About Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom.

Jacob Perkins soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents.

Jacob Perkins was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819.

Jacob Perkins went to school in Newburyport until he was twelve and then was apprenticed to a goldsmith in Newburyport named Davis.

Mr Davis died three years later and the fifteen-year-old Jacob Perkins continued the business of making gold beads and added the manufacture of shoe buckles.

Jacob Perkins worked on water compression and invented a bathometer or piezometer, which can be used to measure the depth of the sea by its pressure.

Jacob Perkins created some of the best steel plates for engraving, and started a printing business with engraver Gideon Fairman.

Jacob Perkins made several important innovations in printing technology, including new steel engraving plates.

Jacob Perkins then made notes for a Boston Bank, and later for the National Bank.

Jacob Perkins's quality printing of American bank notes attracted the attention of the Royal Society who were busy addressing the problem of the widespread forging of English notes.

Jacob Perkins Bacon provided banknotes for many banks, and foreign countries with postage stamps.

Also concurrently, Jacob Perkins's brother ran the American printing business, and they made money on important fire safety patents.

Charles Heath and Jacob Perkins worked together and independently on some concurrent projects.

Jacob Perkins has patents for Heating and Air Conditioning technology.

Jacob Perkins investigated refrigeration machinery after discovering from his research in heating that liquefied ammonia caused a cooling effect.

In 1816, Jacob Perkins had worked on steam power with Oliver Evans in Philadelphia.

Jacob Perkins' boiler was the first example of a flash boiler and one of the first examples of a contra-flow heat exchanger.

Jacob Perkins applied his Hermetic tube system to steam locomotive boilers and a number of locomotives using this principle were made in 1836 for the London and South Western Railway.

In 1832 Jacob Perkins established the National Gallery of Practical Science on Adelaide Street, West Strand, London.

Jacob Perkins is credited with the first patent for the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle, assigned on August 14,1834 and titled, "Apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cooling fluids".

Jacob Perkins bought some technology, and patented it himself in multiple countries, and employed the true inventors.

Jacob Perkins's second son, Angier March Perkins, born at Newburyport, went to England in 1827, and was in partnership with his father.

Jacob Perkins retired in 1843 and died in London on July 30,1849, at 83 years of age.