William Dana Ewart

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  William Dana Ewart, Founder, Link Belt Machinery Company

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  William Dana Ewart, Founder, Link-Belt Machinery Company

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  William Dana Ewart, a farm implement dealer in Belle Plaine, Iowa, founded Link-Belt.He developed a square, detachable "link" for chain drive belts on harvesters, which previously had chain drive belts that wore unevenly and had to be removed for repairs.Ewart's chain drive belts could be repaired in the field.He obtained a patent in 1874, and "link-belting" became widespread for all types of power transmission and materials-handling equipment.

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  William Ewart - MP
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  William Dana Ewart - founder of Link-Belt

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  William Ewart - MP
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  William Dana Ewart - founder of Link-Belt

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  William Dana Ewart, a farm implement dealer, proposed that a drive chain could be constructed of several detachable links.When wear and tear caused one piece or link to break, the defective section of the chain could easily be replaced right in the field, thus eliminating costly downtime for the farmers.Ewart called his new product the Link-Belt, and so our brand name and reputation for providing solutions to real workplace problems was born.
  
  Ewart patented his Link-Belt chain in 1874 and founded the Ewart Manufacturing Co.In 1880, Ewart founded the Link-Belt Machinery Co. and in 1888, the Link-Belt Engineering Co.

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  William Dana Ewart
  
  William Dana Ewart invented the linked belt in 1874, a square detachable link for chain belts that became the standard for modern mechanical power transmission still in use today.
  
  In 1880 he founded the Link-Belt Machinery and Link-Belt Engineering Companies.
  
  Ten years later, his companies developed the first wide-gauge, steam-powered, coal-handling clamshell crane, the ancestor of today's Link-Belt construction equipment.
  
  ~ ConstructMyFuture.com
  
  Along with five others he was inducted into the Construction Equipment Industry Hall of Fame at a ceremony conducted in Las Vegas at the opening of CONEXPO-CONAGG '96.

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  William Ewart, MP
  
  (1798 - 1869)
  
  William Ewart was born in Liverpool.He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a BA.An active social reformer, Ewart was elected as Member of Parliament for Bletchingly from 1828 to 1830 after a career as a barrister.He was later elected for Liverpool (1830, 1831, 1832 & 1835).At first he concentrated on legal reform and played an important role in the abolition of capital punishment for minor offences (1837).
  
  Ewart was later elected for Wigan (1839) before becoming MP for Dumfries in 1841.He then turned his attention to working class education.Ewart joined forces with the MP for Salford, Joseph Brotherton, and the Chartist Edward Edwards to draft a Public Libraries Act.
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  Ewart faced considerable hostility from the Conservatives in the House of Commons.It was argued that the rate paying middle and upper classes would be paying for a service that would be mainly used by the working classes.Ewart was therefore forced to make several changes to his proposed legislation before Parliament agreed to pass the measure.
  
  The Public Libraries Act became law in 1850.Whereas William Ewart wanted all boroughs to have the power to finance public libraries, the legislation only applied to those boroughs with populations of over 10,000.The Borough Councils also had to obtain the consent of two thirds of the local ratepayers who voted in a referendum.Other restrictions included that the rate of no more than a halfpenny in the pound could be levied.Furthermore, this money could not be used to purchase books.
  
  The bust of Ewart shown on the right may be seen in the Ewart Library in Dumfries.
  
  When Ewart retired in 1868 he had served in the House of Commons for forty years.

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