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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

T. Gilbert

patent holder inventor patentee

Biography

T. Gilbert is credited in an illustration caption, positioned among a set of plates depicting the era's key patented piano actions and iron frames (alongside Babcock, Loud, and Meyer), with patenting a piano action and frame in 1841. No further biographical detail is given in this portion of the text beyond the patent attribution and the accompanying cross-sectional diagram of the mechanism. Gilbert is credited, in a patent-illustration caption, with an action for pianofortes, patented August 7, 1847. No further biographical detail is given in this portion of the text.

Highlights

  • Patented a piano action on August 7, 1847.
  • Patented a piano action and frame in 1841, illustrated in the text

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890).

Public domain.

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