George B. Simpson, of Saratoga County, New York was issued US Patent 65,019 in 1867 after a protracted and precedent-setting legal dispute. His 1848 application disclosed the use of gutta-percha to insulate metallic wire for electro-magnetic signalling. It was this invention of a practical insulation which had already made the first submarine telegraph cables viable, shrinking the globe from weeks to minutes.
By the time the case concluded in 1867 he was a paymaster in the U.S. Army. He died a few months later of yellow fever.
| Died | 1867 |
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| Died | 1867 |
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Fossil Algae, Fossil Cephalopoda, Fossil Corals, Fossil Echinodermata, Fossil Fungi, Fossil Hexactinellida, Fossil Sponges, History, Miscellanea. [from old catalog], Orthocerida, Paleontology, Philosophy, Politics and government, RugosaID Numbers
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