Frank McDowell Leavitt
Engineer, Deceased Person
1856 – 1928
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Who was Frank McDowell Leavitt?
Frank McDowell Leavitt was an American engineer and inventor. Leavitt devised one of the earliest machines for manufacturing tin cans and later invented the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo, the chief torpedo weapon used by United States Navy in World War I. Leavitt was part of an emerging cadre of American engineers whose design feats were putting United States manufacturing might on the map at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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- Born
- Mar 3, 1856
Athens - Parents
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 6, 1928
Scarsdale
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on July 23, 2013
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