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Henry N. MARVIN
(Jordan, 1862-Venice, 1940)
Jean-Claude SEGUIN
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Daniel Warner Marvin (Toan of VanBuren, 25/07/1824-Canastota, 02/12/1913) épouse (Onandaga, 18/09/1850) Ellen Jane Weed (Pompey, 09/1830-Syracuse, 29/04/1902). Descendance :
- Eugene Hobart Marvin (Baldwinsville, 22/09/1851-Baldwinsville, 09/02/1852).
- Mary Isabella Marvin (Jordan, 07/05/1854-Jordan, 24/08/1855)
- Arthur Weed Marvin (Jordan, 26/05/1858-Los Angeles, 18/01/1911)
- épouse Sarah E. Babcock (1859-)
- épouse Caroline [Marvin] (1863-)
- Henry "Harry" Norton Marvin (Jordan, 06/09/1862-Venice, 12/01/1940) épouse (Canastota, 14/09/1882) Oramella "Ora", Lucretia Tackabury (1860-1937). Descendance:
- Robert, Sprague Marvin (Canastota, 18/03/1886->1945)
- épouse Gertrude [Marvin]
- épouse (05/08/1912) Dorothy, Lester Cook (México, 1894-1940). Descendance:
- Robert S. Marvin (1915-)
- Dorothy, Amada Marvin (1916-)
- George Marvin (1917-)
- fille
- Maud, Marguerite Marvin (Syracuse, 15/11/1889-Utica, 09/1968) épouse ([1911])George, Valentine Schmitt (30/07/1887-New York). Descendance:
- Harry, Morgan Marvin-Smith (1912-1984)
- Madeleine Marvin-Smith (1914-2011)
- Oramella Marvin-Smith (1916-)
- Marguerite Marvin-Smith (1923-)
- Donald Webster Marvin (29/03/1890-Canastota, 28/01/1893)
- Kenneth, Tackabury Marvin (Schenectady, 19/06/1891-New York, 19/10/1920) épouse Madeleine Agnes McKinnon (1893-). Descendance:
- Madeleine Marvin (1915-2006) épouse (Mamaroneck, 19/06/1937) George Elbert Mills Jr.
- Harry, Norton Marvin (1920) épouse (Larchmont, 09/08/1947) Muriel Bogardus.
- Fils.
- Daniel W. Marvin (Canastota, 12/02/1894-) épouse (New York, 12/03/1912) Mary Graham Carmichael Farquarson ([New York], 30/01/1894-). Descendance:
- Mary, Margaret "Peggy" (21/10/1912-) épouse Wheaton Kittredge
- Robert, Sprague Marvin (Canastota, 18/03/1886->1945)
- Ellen, Augusta Marvin (1867-1868).
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Les origines (1862-1894)
Fils d'un commerçant (Dealer Flow & Feed) demeurant à Jordan (recensement 1860), à Onedia (recensement 1870), puis à Syracuse (recensement 1875), Harry N. Marvin poursuit ses études en 1880 (recensement). Après son mariage (1882) avec Ora Tackabury, il est diplômé de l'University of Syracuse, puis travaille pour l'Edison Electric Light Co. (New York) (1883-1885) avant de devenir professeur à la Trinity School de Tivoli (New York) (1885-1886). Puis, il exerce le métier d'électricien à Syracuse à partir de 1886 jusqu'en 1888, année où il s'associe à Thomas A. Edison pour l'installation de la première centrale d'éclairage électrique à New York. Il se trouve dans le bureau d'Edison (65, Fifth Avenue) lorsque les premières lumières de la ville s'allument. C'est à cette époque (1887) qu'il connaît William K. L. Dickson. Il rejoint alors l'Edison General Electric Company à Schenectady (New York) et invente une foreuse électromagnétique dont il dépose un premier brevet en janvier 1889, puis un second à la fin de cette même année :
431,170. Electro-Magnetic Drill System. Harry N. Marvin, Syracuse, N. Y., assignor to the Marvin Electric Drill Company, same place. Filed Dec. 17, 1889.
The Electric Age, New York, 12 juillet 1890, p. 9.
Le succès de ce brevet conduit Harry N. Marvin à constituer, dès le début de l'année 1890, la société Marvin Electric Drill Company à Syracuse :
Syracuse, N. Y.-Articles of the Marvin Electric Drill Company were filed at the county clerk’s office. The capital stock of the company is $300,000, divided into shares of $100 each, and the incorporators, who are the trustees for the first year, are Henry N. Marvin, William J. Gillett and Charles E. Lipe. The company is formed for the purpose of manufacturing, purchasing, selling and leasing electric reciprocating tools, dynamos, motors, etc., and the machinery and appliances pertaining thereto.
Electrical Review, New York, samedi 18 janvier 1890, p. 3.
"Marvin Electric Drill"
The Electrical World, vol. 15, nº 16, 19 avril 1890, p. 272.
De nouveaux brevets sont déposés au cours des mois suivants (US467,509 et 467,510. 26 janvier 1892). À la fin de l'année 1893, l'inventeur Herman Casler en dépose un autre pour un appareil photographique, le "Photoret" (EU509,841. 28/11/1893) auquel est associé Harry N, Marvin.
The Photoret US509841A·1893-11-28 |
The Photoret (publicité) |
L'American Mutoscope Company (1895-1899)
L'année 1895 voit se produire des transformations profondes dans les activités professionnelles et commerciales d'Harry N. Marvin. En mars, le décès du cousin d'Herman Casler, l'inventeur Charles E. Lipe (Fort Plain, 20/03/1851-Syracuse, 17/03/1895) prive la société Marvin Electric Drill de son secrétaire :
Syracuse Inventor Dead.
SYRACUSE, March 18.-Charles E. Lipe, a mechanical engineer and one of the most successful inventors of this city, died at his home here, of hemorrhage of the brain, after a week's illness. Mr. Lipe was chiefly known as the inventor of the Lipe changeable bicycle gear. He was treasurer of the Marvin Electric Drill company and was a director in several companies which manufactured his inventions.
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, lundi 18 mars 1895, p. 21.
Alors qu'Herman Casler et Harry N. Marvin collaborent depuis quelques temps, le bras droit d'Edison, William K. L. Dickson quitte le génie de Menlo Park, en avril 1895 et va se rapprocher des deux inventeurs. Il s'agit d'envisager la possibilité d'exploiter commercialement le mutoscope dont Casler va d'ailleurs donner plusieurs versions dans les années qui suivent. Afin de consolider le projet, il est fait appel à Elias Koopman, directeur de la Magic Introduction Company, qui apporte les fonds nécessaires à la création de la nouvelle société : l'American Mutoscope Company
Henry N. Marvin, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Herman Casler et Elias Bernard Koopman
22 septembre 1896 [D.P.]
Canastota, Jan. 13.-An addition is being built on the Marvin and Casler's works on Robert-st.The Syracuse Daily Journal, mercredi 13 janvier 1897, p. 3.
Mutoscope (États-Unis. Marvin. 1897): juin 1897.
THE MARVIN ELECTRIC ROCK DRILL
[...]
The Marvin electric drill, as at present manufactured by the Marvin Electric Drill Company, of Canastota, N. Y., is one of the finest of recent achievements in electrical engineering. It embodies electrical principles of peculiar merti, and mechanical construction not surpassed by other machines, and a simplicity of operation and construction that is almost ideal.Scientific American, samedi 29 avril 1899, p. 262.
En 1893, il s'associe avec Herman Casler, un machiniste de l'Edison General Electric Company à Schenectady (New York), et fonde la Marvin & Casler Company à Canastota (New York) qui se consacre à la fabrication de diverses machines.
Consecutive-View Apparatus (États-Unis. Marvin. 1897)
En 1900, il est recensé à Manhattan (New York).
ELECTRIC DRILLS.— The Marvin Electric Drill Company, whose plant is located in Canastota, N. Y., has increased its capital stock from $300,000 to $500,000. The company will increase the output of its factory.Electrical World and Engineer, vol. XXXVIII, nº 15, 12 octobre 1901, 608 p.
C'est vers la fin de l'année 1902, Marvin & Casler (29 novembre 1902)
Business
Papers were filed with the Secretary of State at Albany for the incorporation of the Marvin & Casler Company of Canastota. The directors are H. M. Marvin, Herman Casler and L. R. Cooper. They will continue along the same line as the firm of Marvin & Casler, whom they succeed, and will take up a line of general machine manufacturing. The capital stock is $50,000.Otica Herald Dispatch, Otica, samedi (soir) 21 mai 1904, p. 6.
Marvin & Casler company ([1906]-[1917]
En 1912, son fils, Daniel Marvin, épouse Mary Farquarson lors d'une cérémonie qui est filmée:
FILM PICTURES OF MARRIAGE
NEW YORK, March 23-In order to perpetuate the scenes attending their wedding, moving pictures were taken following the marriage of Mary Graham C. Farquarhson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farquarhson, of 317 Riverside Drive, to Daniel Warner Marvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Norton Marvin, of 340 Riverside Drive.
Immediately after the services the bridal party, accompanied by the clergyman, formed an automobile caravan to the Edison Biograph. studio in East Fourteenth street where a duplicate of the drawing room's temporary altar was formed of scenery and floral decorations and the ceremony was repeated before the camera while a phonograph furnished the wedding music.
New Castle Herald, New Castle, samedi 23 mars 1912, p. 9.
The Daily Mirror, nº 2670, mercredi 15 mai 1912, p. 1.
et le couple part, sur le Mauretania, pour un voyage de noces qui doit durer cinq semaines. Le 10 avril, ils embarquent à bord du Titanic. La jeune épouse enceinte au moment du naufrage est sauvée alors que Daniel, resté sur le navire, perd la vie. Quelques mois plus, Mary donne naissance à une fille prénommée Mary, Margaret Elizabeth.
WHY THEY GOT TOGETHER
“Movies Trust” Head Says It Was Necessary to Protect the People.
New York. Jan. 17.—In his testimony in the government suit for the dissolution of the so-called “movies trust," Harry N. Marvin, president of the Motion Picture Patents company, went at great length into the reasons for the formation of the General Film company, saying that it was formed because the manufacturers holding licenses under the patents company had felt the necessity of uplifting the motion picture art in this country and protecting the business against immoral, obscene films that were being imported and distributed throughout this country by unscrupulous dealers. This company absorbed fifty-seven of the 116 exchanges previously licensed to do business under the patents company.The Daily Republican, Rushville, vendredi (soir), 17 janvier 19143, p. 7.
En 1920, son autre fils, Kenneth est retrouvé mort dans l'appartement d'une starlette Ferne Le Roy sans doute victime d'overdose.
ae his wataiist residence wealtt tion picture machines, trolled’ radio receiver The tory here, on the Boston Post road Harry N Marvin, fetired inventor of the automatic rock drill and some early: mohas privately demonstrated his automatically conto a group of newspaper men. result of five years ot experimentation in his elaborate laborathe device was perfected as a hobby in the inventor's pastime. He asserted that he did not have any intention of commercializing it. Mr. Marvin had several of the automatic radio sets in. his’ home so many, in fact, that he said he never! thought of counting them. A rustic cabinet, obviously of home construc- tion, two or three tables, an organ and a sixteenth century cabinet all’ served as props for his model! receiver. It was a striking contrast to see Mr. Marvin’ open the doe an antique cabinet dating back La. centuries and noting that it contained a cpmplete late model loop receiver equipped with the inventor’s automatic control system, While some of the sets differed in minor respects in appearaice and methods of operation, they were all designed on thé same principle. The first set demoustrated by- the invenior was similar in appearance to a telephone switchboard. Its panel consisted of 10 throw switches. Of these, the first nine were labeled with the eall letters of certain broadcast stations. The inventor made it clear that any favorite stations of the “fan” could be permanently “tuned in” and ‘inked to an individual throw switch. Switch Throw Starts Set. Marvin then threw the first <witch, which was labeled “WNYC.” instantly an illuminated dia) spun tround to’ its proper setting and the voice of Thomas Cowan, announcer of the ‘municipal station, Was recogThe inventor then threw the switch labelal WHN-WPAP, and again the dial spun .automatically to the correct position and an announcer of the station was heard signing off. ietastina WHAF, WOR, WJZ were subsequently tuned in by the same automatic process. Stations WGY, Schenectady, and WSAI, Cincinnati, also were labeled on the panel switches and a throw of the latter brought the Ohio station in precisely tuned, : Other sets included some models worked by plungers and buttons instead of the throw switches. A control was provided on each of the sets for volume, swhile another knob permitted manual instead of automatic tuning. ° Due to pending patent litigations, Mr. Marvin would not disclose the design of his device and supplied only a limited technical description. It was thought probable that the set was of the three-condenser type, and in its operation each condenser was set independently of the others and instantly locked inte place. Adaptable to Any Circuit. According to Mr. Marvin, he designed the set to suit his own personal fancy and is not looking forward toward the commercial production of the device. He indicated that it would be particularly adaptable to women and children as well as the blind and afflicted. While the device is adaptable to any circuit, it would have to be installed on a.set at the time of its manufacture and could not be easily adapted to ready-built models, Mr. Marvin remarked. That he has been working on the models for some time in the past was indicated by a receiver that had automatic buttons bearing the call letters of stations WJY and WAHG, both of which had been long discontinued. The disclosure that the sets were battery operated was made when the sets continued te operate by candle light during a short circuit which put the house current out of commissiot. The short circuit was caused by the attachment of Kleig lights to the house lighting circuit for the use of motion picture photographers. G. Clayton Irwin, general manager of the radio world’s fair, was present at the demonstration and announced that’ Mr. Marvin's automatic-control tuning dévice will be placed on public demonstration for the first time at the next time in September. Mr. Marvin was associated with Thomas A. Edison during the early days of his career. A string quartet— three violins and a cello—will be featured in tonight’s broadcast of the Ipana Troubadours over WSB at 8 o'clock. John Cali, violinist of Rector’s and Churchill's in the heyday of those restaurants and now banjoist of the Ipana orchestra, will play one of the three violins. Andy Sanella, famous for his saxophone and guitar solos on the Ipana program. will further display his versatility by discarding both of these instruments on March 21 for the violin. Murray Kelner, first violinist of the group, will be heard as usual. Lucien Schmit, voted radio’s most popular eellist, will complete the quartet with his instrument.The Constitution, Atlanta, mercredi 21 mars 1928, p. 13.
Il décède le 12 janvier 1940:
Harry N. Marvin, 77, Dies
Venica, Fla., January 12.- (AP)-Harry N. Marvin, 77, inventor and president of the Biograph Company in the early days of the motion picture industry, died today. Marvin invented a drill used in mining.
The Gazette, Montreal, samedi 13 janvier 1940, p. 14.
Il est inhumé
Sources
Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, New York, 1890, p. 1110.
"H.N. Marvin dies; one of founders of Biograph", Motion Picture Herald, vol. 138, nº 1, 20 janvier 1940, p. 62.