Record #:

22959

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 3-16 1985, p6

Subject(s):

Inventions--Pitt County; Pitt County--History--Inventions; Cox, John Cannon, 1823-1896