Word: millwrights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...owes its existence to little Tom Lewis, a bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis had taught them...