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Brother William Burt<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 13th 1792 \u2013 August 18th 1858<\/p>\n

Member of:<\/p>\n

Stony Creek Lodge #5<\/a> Rochester, Michigan<\/p>\n

American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter<\/a> constructed in America. He is referred to as the “father of the typewriter”. Burt also invented the first workable solar compass<\/a>, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant<\/a>, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea.<\/p>\n

\"typographer\"<\/p>\n

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