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.