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William Austin Burt (June 13, 1792 – August 18, 1858) was an American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. Burt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and lived in Michigan from 1822 until his death in 1858. He was a member of the Michigan Territorial Legislature, 1826–7. He served as Mount Vernon's first postmaster from 1832 to 1856.
William Austin Burt changed land surveying with his invention of the solar compass. As a surveyor, he is credited with discovering iron ore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Burt was born in Massachusetts on June 13, 1792.
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William Austin Burt (below) was one of the most active and leading of the surveyors in Michigan. He was a man who personified the rugged early American pioneer. He led many a survey team through the Michigan wilderness, and today Burt Lake stands in his remembrance.
Jun 6, 2016 · More than 40 years before there was Hamilton, there was Burr, the best-selling and critically acclaimed 1973 novel about the disgraced Founding Father—written by a celebrity author with a...
July 23, 1829 — Today, William Austin Burt patented the first typographer (typewriter). An American legislator, surveyor, craftsman and inventor created a rectangular wooden box that depressed a rotating lever, causing ink to be released onto a sheet of paper.
Mar 11, 2024 · William Austin Burt was born in 1792 in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, the son of Alvin Burt (1761–1841) and Wealthy Austin (1763–1843). William was an American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright.
A true innovator, William Austin Burt, born on a Massachusetts farm in 1792, used any free time he had to study astronomy, navigation, natural philosophy, and more; around the age of 16, his father sent him to school for six weeks to learn science and mathematics.
