The Inventor Extraordinaire Who Gave Us the Safety Pin: Walter Hunt
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Walter Hunt is known as the Yankee mechanical genius. His hundreds of inventions include a saw, a steamer, ink stands, a nail-making machine, a rifle, a revolver, bullets, bicycles, a shirt collar, a boot heel, and a ceiling-walking circus device. Hunt’s most successful invention was designed in just three hours to settle a $15 debt to one of the many draftsmen he tasked with drawing up his patents. Here’s Ashley Hlebinsky with the story.
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