Living Family Archive

Mr. Morse

Biography

Named as Thaddeus Fairbanks’s collaborator in the passage’s account of wind-driven engines and the Fairbanks Morse engine.

Timeline

1893
Windmill patents and gasoline engine inventions
The passage attributes wind-driven engine patents and manufacture, and a commercially successful large gasoline-driven Fairbanks Morse engine, to this account of their collaboration.
History of the Guild Family

Stories mentioning Mr.

Inventive Hands and the Fortunes of an InheritanceNewton’s mills, repair shop, patents and royalties illustrate what the family calls the Guild tinkering trait. The account also credits Thaddeus Fairbanks and Mr. Morse with scale and engine innovations. After Newton’s death, Dan supported his family with his inheritance, Bernal became a traveling salesman, and Frank Beckman lost most of Adah’s share in a failed furniture store venture.

Referenced in

History of the Guild Family — CARRIE FAIRBANKS

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