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...Yardlings lost but one set, when Stewart was beaten 6-1 by Denny, only to come back and take the next two sets 6-2, 6-2. Burt, Gilkey, Legg, Palfrey, Curtis, and Brooks were the other members of the winning team...
Iron Ground. In 1844 a surveyor named William A. Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well...
Yardling Coach Hup Wallace has listed the following Freshman as promising courtmen: David S. Burt, Langdon B. Gilkey, Chester A. Legg, Jr., Walter P. Muther, and John G. Palfrey...
Descended from a family of early Massachusetts settlers, William Austin Burt was a surveyor, mechanic and millwright. He lived on a farm near Detroit when he put together his writing-machine, which he called "The Typographer." Noticing that local magnetism frequently disturbed surveying compasses, he invented a sun-compass, was awarded a medal and $20 in gold by the Franklin Institute. Burt returned from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council...
William Austin Burt's first typewritten letter, whose orthographic vagaries the Smithsonian charitably ascribes to the weaknesses of the machine as well as to the inventor's weakness in spelling, was written from New York City to his wife in Michigan...