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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
s, Sen., the father, d. 27 Mar. 1828, a. 69. [His wife was Helen Weston, of Concord, m. 18 June, 1781, d. 15 Oct. 1829, a. 66.] He was the inventor of the once celebrated card-machine for making cotton and wool-cards. He took his first patent on this machine 2 June, 1797, for the term of fourteen years; and went to England, in 1799, to secure a patent in that country. A renewal of his original patent was secured by the unanimous vote of Congress, for a second term of fourteen years, on 3 Mar. 1809, and on 20 July, 1812, he sold his patent right and machinery for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He devised several ingenious mechanical contrivances. His card machine was regarded as a marvel of human ingenuity, and by a series of successive, independent operations, wonderful in the perfection of its performance, completed the card. Edward Everett could compare its performance with nothing more nearly than the mechanism of the human system. John Randolph, of Roanok