Joshua Shaw was an English [later naturalised as American] artist and inventor.
16 Facts About Joshua Shaw
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Joshua Shaw was born in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7.
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At the age of 16 Joshua Shaw painted his first work: 10 commandments in St Michael's Church.
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Joshua Shaw was able to find purchasers for his work and emerged from obscurity, traveling to London where his paintings attracted many wealthy clients.
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Joshua Shaw emigrated to the United States in 1817 and by 1819 settled in Philadelphia, where he established himself as an artist.
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Joshua Shaw helped promote the Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, established in 1834, and was instrumental in founding the Artists' and Amateurs' Association of Philadelphia in 1839.
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Joshua Shaw exhibited actively at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Joshua Shaw was indeed a developer of percussion primers and a gun dated to be no earlier than 1817, was made by William Smith of Lisle Street in London to test his prototype steel cap according to his own account.
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Joshua Shaw, writing in the Journal of the Franklin Institute in 1829 states that he adopted the use fulminate of mercury, which was improvement over the corrosive chlorate of potash fulminate patented by Alexander John Forsyth.
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Joshua Shaw claimed that around 1814 or 1815 he was 'induced to investigate the properties of the different compositions, and.
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Joshua Shaw successfully filed suits against Joseph Vicars, William Beckwith, and Jackson Mortimer in 1811; Isaac Riviere in 1819, and Collinson Hall in 1819.
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Joshua Shaw went to Philadelphia in 1817 and filed a patent on June 19,1822, which was granted erroneously as American patent law disallowed applications if an earlier patent existed anywhere in the world.
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Joshua Shaw's patent was overturned by Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in October 1829 and upheld in by the US Supreme Court in January 1833.
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Joshua Shaw received $18,000 on May 4,1847, and the remainder by 1858.
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Joshua Shaw returned to England in 1833 with his new design for cannon locks.
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Joshua Shaw's invention was adopted by both the British and the Russians.