Edwin R. Fellows

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Edwin R. Fellows (1865-1945) was a U.S. American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry. Fellows's machines made a vital contribution to the manufacture of effective and reliable gear transmissions for the nascent automotive industry.