Master Inventor: How Howard Colman Created a Multi-National Corporation
Description
At the young age of 17 Howard D. Colman invented a warp drawing machine, which is used to automate the weaving of cotton into patterns. A local lumberman, W.A. Barber, invested $100 so Colman could transform his wooden prototype into iron and steel. With that initial investment the Barber-Colman company was founded. In 1894 the prodigious inventor was granted his first patent for a instrument that measured the flow of milk. This early success, along with the 149 patents eventually granted to Colman over the years, were key in building Barber-Colman. Colman, however, was quite a humble man and often attributed his inventions to his financial backer Barber. He is described in Jon Lundin's book The Master Inventor as a man who always took the stairs. Photographs of Colman were so rare that employees would pass him by completely oblivious as to who he was.
Price history chart & currency exchange rate
![Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map [first edition]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780670033676-us.jpg "Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map [first edition]")
![Fighting Them Over - How the Veterans Remembered Gettysburg in the Pages of the National Tribune [first edition]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780935523607-us.jpg "Fighting Them Over - How the Veterans Remembered Gettysburg in the Pages of the National Tribune [first edition]")
![Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 [signed]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780785260745-us.jpg "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 [signed]")
![Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image [signed]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781439189238-us.jpg "Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image [signed]")
![Photographing Acadia National Park; the essential guide to when, where, and how [signed]](http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780983380474-us.jpg "Photographing Acadia National Park; the essential guide to when, where, and how [signed]")
