Wendell Phillips Norton Sr. (May 14, 1861 – August 8, 1955) was the inventor of a mechanical gear shift on the Hendy-Norton lathe.[1][2]
Biography
editHe was born on May 14, 1861, in Plainville, Connecticut, to John Calvin Norton and Harriet Hotchkiss. He died on August 8, 1955, at his home in Torrington, Connecticut.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Wendell Phillips Norton". New York Times. August 11, 1955. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
Wendell Phillips Norton, Sr. inventor and designer of the mechanical gear shift first used on the Hendy-Norton lathe, died at his home on Monday after a ...
- ^ "Torrington Inventor Is Dead At 94". Hartford Courant. August 10, 1955. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
Wendell Phillips Norton Sr., 94, inventor of machine tool devices famous the world over, died today at his home at 365 Prospect St. after a long illness. ...
- ^ William Jamieson Pape (1918). "Wendell Phillips Norton, Sr". History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut.