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Thomas, R S(dictionary)
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Jehovah (iou) and Blanchard, Thomas (sh)


Jehovah (iou)



Jehovah noun. M16.

(The principal and personal name of) God in the Old Testament; the Lord.
Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah Witness a member of a fundamentalist millenary sect, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, which rejects institutional Religion and gives precedence to the claims of the sect when these conflict with those of the State.
? Popularized in Christian usage at the Renaissance and occurring in Tindale's translation of the Bible.

Blanchard, Thomas (sh)




born June 24, 1788, Sutton, Mass., U.S.
died April 16, 1864, Boston, Mass.

U.S. inventor.

In 1818 he invented a lathe capable of turning irregular shapes, such as a gunstock. It duplicated the form of a pattern object by transmitting to the cutting tool the motion of a friction wheel rolling over the pattern. His invention was an essential step in the development of mass production techniques. He produced several successful designs of shallow-draft steamboats, and in 1849 he invented machinery for bending wood into complex shapes such as plow handles and ship's frames.