Tainter

Tainter

Tainter can refer to:

People

* Charles Sumner Tainter, engineer and inventor
* Jeremiah Burnham Tainter, engineer
* Joseph Tainter, anthropologist and historian

Places

* Tainter, Wisconsin

Other

* Tainter gate on a dam


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  • Tainter, Charles Sumner — ▪ American inventor born Aug. 25, 1854, Watertown Mass., U.S. died April 20, 1940, San Diego, Calif.       American inventor who, with Chichester A. Bell (a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell), greatly improved the phonograph by devising a wax… …   Universalium

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