George W. Cannon

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George W. Cannon was an American inventor from New York. He is best known for the invention of the mechanical dumbwaiter. Cannon first filed for the patent of a brake system (US Patent no. 260776) that could be used for a dumbwaiter on January 6, 1883. [1] He later filed for the patent on the mechanical dumbwaiter (US Patent No. 361268) on February 17, 1887. [2] He is reported to have generated a vast amount of money from royalties from his dumbwaiter patents until his death in 1911. [3]

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