Harvey family.

The Harvey family, descendants of William Harvey, one of the founders of Taunton, Mass., produced two important inventors in the arts of metalworking and metallurgy.

Thomas William Harvey was born in Vermont on July 22, 1795. His parents having died, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In 1814 he moved to western New York State. While supporting himself as a smith, he began making experiments in the mechanical and metallurgical arts, particularly in the production of screws, nails and spikes, where he made many improvements and was awarded several patents. In 1833 he developed the toggle joint for the rotary printing press. He helped to organize the Poughkeepsie Screw Manufacturing Company in 1836. He patented the gimlet-pointed screw in 1838, but did not succeed in getting people to abandon the old blunt-ended screw until 1846.

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