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    Christopher Miner Spencer (June 20, 1833 ā€“ January 14, 1922) was an American inventor, from Manchester, Connecticut, who invented the Spencer repeating...
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  • Christopher or Chris Spencer may refer to: Christopher Miner Spencer (1833ā€“1922), American inventor Chris Spencer (actor), African-American actor, comedian...
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    and engineers of the area, including Elias Howe, Alvan Clark, Christopher Miner Spencer. Roper was observed driving his steam carriage around Boston in...
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  • 1897, to Christopher Miner Spencer (1833-1922), the inventor of, among other things, the Spencer repeating rifle. The then 14-year-old Spencer built his...
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    Pullman Christian Sharps David Sinton Horace Smith (inventor) Christopher Miner Spencer George Luther Stearns Henry J. Steere Ezekiel A. Straw John Edgar...
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  • the Spaten Brewery and using dimethyl ether as the refrigerant Christopher Miner Spencer introduces the fully automatic turret lathe Copley Medal: Hermann...
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    Having witnessed a demonstration of a new repeating rifle by Christopher Miner Spencer in March, Wilder determined to arm his brigade with that weapon...
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  • gun-copying lathes (1820sā€“30s), and the work of people such as Christopher Miner Spencer developed the turret lathe into the screw machine (1870s). Cam-based...
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    Christopher Miner Spencer, a New England inventor. Charles Vander Woerd may have contemporarily independently invented a machine similar to Spencer's...
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  • a Scottish band Billings & Spencer, a former manufacturer founded by Charles E. Billings and Christopher Miner Spencer Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad...
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