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Harvey Hubbell II (1857 - December 17, 1927), was a U.S. inventor
Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur

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 and industrialist. His best known inventions are the electrical plug
Domestic AC power plugs and sockets

AC power plugs and sockets are devices for removably connecting electrically-operated devices to the mains electricity.An electric plug is a gender of connectors and fasteners electrical connector with contact prongs to connect mechanically and electrically to slots in the matching female socket....
, and the pull-chain light socket.

In 1888, at the age of thirty-one, Hubbell quit his job as a manager of a manufacturing company and founded Harvey Hubbell, Incorporated, which is still in business today. Hubbell began manufacturing consumer products and, by necessity, inventing manufacturing equipment for his factory.






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Harvey Hubbell II (1857 - December 17, 1927), was a U.S. inventor
Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an organization, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome....
 and industrialist. His best known inventions are the electrical plug
Domestic AC power plugs and sockets

AC power plugs and sockets are devices for removably connecting electrically-operated devices to the mains electricity.An electric plug is a gender of connectors and fasteners electrical connector with contact prongs to connect mechanically and electrically to slots in the matching female socket....
, and the pull-chain light socket.

In 1888, at the age of thirty-one, Hubbell quit his job as a manager of a manufacturing company and founded Harvey Hubbell, Incorporated, which is still in business today. Hubbell began manufacturing consumer products and, by necessity, inventing manufacturing equipment for his factory. Some of the equipment he designed included automatic tapping
Taps and dies

Taps and dies are cutting tools used to create screw threads in solid substances including, but not limited to, metal, wood, and plastic. A tap is used to cut the female portion of the mating pair ....
 machines and progressive dies
Die (manufacturing)

A die is a specialized tool used in manufacturing industries to cut, shape and form a wide variety of products and components. Like Molding and templates, dies are generally customized and uniquely matched to the product they are used to create....
 for blanking and stamping
Machine press

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. One of his most important industrial inventions, still in use today, is the thread
Screw thread

A screw thread is a helix structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force.A screw thread may be thought of as an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder or cone ....
 rolling machine. He quickly began selling his newly devised manufacturing equipment alongside his commercial products.

Hubbell received over 45 patents, most were for electric products. The pull-chain electrical light socket was patented in 1896, and his most famous invention, the electrical power plug, in 1904. This invention eliminated possible mis-wiring and the need to hard-wire electrical devices to their power source.

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