Francis Melville
inventor
patent holder
Biography
Francis Melville, of Glasgow, Scotland, was granted a patent for metallic tubular bracing in 1825, evidently designed as an improvement on William Allen and James Thom's earlier tubular bracing invention. Spillane notes that nothing further is known of its outcome.
Highlights
- Patented metallic tubular bracing in 1825, apparently intended as an improvement on Allen & Thom's invention, though its outcome is unrecorded.
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 42.
Public domain.