Timeline
- 1792 Born in Boxford, Massachusetts on May 1
- 1807 Apprenticed to a shoemaker
- 1815 Marriage to Eunice Twombly of Portland, Maine
- 1825 Publication of A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts, and Interesting Experiments
- 1845 Publishes Scientific American
- 1849 Publication of Aerial Navigation: The Practicality of Traveling Pleasantly and Safely from New York to California in Three Days
- 1850 US Census perhaps other person with same name
- 1860 US Census perhaps other person with same name
- 1861 Living in Melrose, Massachusetts
- 1865 Living in Malden, Massachusetts
- 1870 US Census listed as inventor in Bristol, Connecticut
- 1872 Living in Plantsville, Connecticut
- 1873 Living in West Birmingham, Connecticut
- 1878 Living on Water Street in West Haven, Connecticut
- 1880 US Census listed as inventor in Orange, Connecticut
- 1884 Death in West Haven, Connecticut on August 13
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