Amos Whitney
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Amos Whitney was a mechanical engineer and inventor who co-founded the Pratt & Whitney company. He was a member of the prominent Whitney family.
Amos Whitney
Amos Whitney gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery
Francis A. Pratt
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Francis Ashbury Pratt was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney.
Amos Whitney
…Massachusetts, and apprenticed at the Essex Machine Company. In 1852, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and worked at the Colt Armory. At Colt, he met Francis A. Pratt who soon left to become superintendent at the Phoenix Iron Works and took Whitney with him. While working at Phoenix Iron Works, Whitney designed the…
Francis Ashbury Pratt