Inventors . t four electricity becomes more and more usefulfor small powers, such as lathes, pumps, and ele-vators, an effective and simple motor becomesof the utmost importance. Rudolf Eickemeyerwas born in October, 1831, at Kaiserslautern,Bavaria, where his father was employed as aforester. He was educated at the DarmstadtPolytechnic Institute and at once showed a pre-dilection for scientific work. When still a boy 294 INVENTORS he joined the Revolutionists under Siegel, andafter the upheaval oi 1848 came here with Siegel,Carl Schurz, and George Osterhelcl, the latterafterward becom
Inventors . t four electricity becomes more and more usefulfor small powers, such as lathes, pumps, and ele-vators, an effective and simple motor becomesof the utmost importance. Rudolf Eickemeyerwas born in October, 1831, at Kaiserslautern,Bavaria, where his father was employed as aforester. He was educated at the DarmstadtPolytechnic Institute and at once showed a pre-dilection for scientific work. When still a boy 294 INVENTORS he joined the Revolutionists under Siegel, andafter the upheaval oi 1848 came here with Siegel,Carl Schurz, and George Osterhelcl, the latterafterward becoming his partner. The youngmans first work here was as an engineer on the o Erie Railroad line, then building. In 1854 he es-tablished himself in Yonkers in the business ofrepairing the tools used in the^many hat-shops ofthat already flourishing city. The next twentyyears of his life were devoted to inventions andimprovements in every branch of shaving-machines, stretchers, blockers, press- •. m •7 Rudolph Eickemeyer. ers, ironers, and sewing-machines substitutedmechanism for laborious and slow methods ofhand work. At the beginning of the war Eicke-meyer was quick to see the opportunity for PAST AND PRESENT 295 turning his factory to other uses, and vast quan-tities of revolvers were made there. When thatindustry declined, he took up the manufactureof mowing-machines, having invented a drivingmechanism for such machines that met withwide favor. The introduction of the Bell tele-phone in Vonkers first turned Eickemeyers at-tention to electricity, and for the last ten yearshe has devoted himself almost exclusively to theinvention and manufacture of electric first successful invention in this field was adynamo to furnish light for railroad this he was led to the invention of a dyna-mo capable of doing effective work at muchlower speed than that usually employed, andthis has proved to be his most valuable achieve-ment. Some improvements in w
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