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Pratt, Francis Ashbury
| (1827-1902), U.S. mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer, founded Pratt & Whitney (1865), Hartford, Connecticut, with Amos Whitney. He is credited with being first to permit production of fine gear work. He manufactured machine tools and tools for gun making and sewing machines. He promoted interchangeable parts and the adoption of standard system of gages for the United States and Europe. Among several machine-tool patents, his most important was for planing metal (July 28, 18869). He was born Feb. 15, 1827, Woodstock, Vermont, and died Feb. 10, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut. |
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