What simple, but useful, device did Walter Hunt invent in 1849?
Walter Hunt (inventor) is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Some of his important inventions are shown here with drawings from the patent. Walter Hunt (inventor) Walter Hunt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) was an American mechanic. He was born in Martinsburg, New York. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine (1833), safety pin (1849), a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street sweeping machinery, and the ice plough. Walter Hunt did not realize
Walter Hunt (architect) architect in Charters Towers from 1899-1910. In 1911 Hunt formed a partnership with Charles Dalton Lynch called CD Lynch and Walter Hunt, Architects, Northern Queensland, located in Townsville. During that partnership the firm undertook diverse projects. Hunt practised as an architect and surveyor in Townsville from 1921 to 1931 and from 1923 taught architecture at Townsville Technical College. With his son, Maurice, Hunt operated Maurice and Walter Hunt, Architects, Townville from 1931. Hunt retired to Sydney in 1932. He died on 3 May 1940 in Sydney. Buildings designed by Walter Hunt included: Buildings designed by C D Lynch and Walter