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22938
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Pitt County has had its share of local inventors. In the 1880s, Allen Warren developed a new variety of grapes, the "James Grape" and Col. E. C. Yellowley developed the "Illium" grape. In 1894, Holman Bernard developed a new variety of popcorn. Other inventors include Josephus Edwards new metal sharpener; and Samuel Langley’s "back band," a combination planter, shaper, and andiron. In 1897, N. R. Corey invented a pea, bean and rice planter and in 1909, John Tripp invented a andiron. The tobacco industry spawned inventions. In 1891, Theophilus Bland invented a "tobacco hanger" to help dry tobacco. In 1953, Stanley Hathaway invented the “Hathaway Tobacco Harvester.”
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22959
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The local inventive genius John Cannon Cox (1824-1896) developed many devices in his career. The first invention was a wheat threshing machine. In May 1858, he followed this with a gun that loaded itself and discharged thirty shots a minute. Both these inventions, however, never lasted as long as his "Cox Cotton Planter," patented in 1876. In 1869, Capt. Bryan Smith invented a cotton planter, as well as O. P. Humber in 1883. In 1884, the black community in Greenville devised and built a windlass to get water out of the river. In 1903, Jesse L. Jackson invented a tobacco barn alarm and J. P. Cullifer invented a cucumber-picking machine in 1963-1964.
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