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b. October 3, 1803 and d. June 16, 1855

American physician and inventor. In 1850 he patented a machine for making ice. He is unquestionably the original inventor of the artificial methods of producing ice.

Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much
as conceivable.

—Carlyle

The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which
it can become ours are its subordination to the
Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow,
and every man is or should be an inventor.

—Quotation and Originality

To loll or saunter, to laugh or to weep,
Waken the echoes, or silence to keep,
With no human being at hand to intrude,
Or question the wherefore of manner or mood.

Oh! for the leisure to lie without thought,
Upon the mind’s anvil the ingot unwrought;
The hammers that beat in my temples at rest;
Calm in life’s atmosphere, calm in the breast!

—Craving Rest: All The Year Round

1781-84—The composition of water was demonstrated by Henry Cavendish and James Watt.

1783—Water was decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen gases by Lavoisier.

1805—First cargo of ice was shipped for export to Martinique.

1843—Dumas, the French chemist, pronounced hydrogen to be a metal.

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