Pliny Earle (other)
Pliny Earle may refer to: * Pliny Earle I (1762–1832), American inventor *Pliny Earle (physician) or Pliny Earle II (1809–1892), American physician See also *Pliny Earle Goddard Pliny Earle Goddard (November 24, 1869 – July 12, 1928) was an American linguist and ethnologist noted for his extensive documentation of the languages and cultures of the Athabaskan peoples of western North America. His early research, carr ...

Pliny Earle I
Pliny Earle I (December 17, 1762 – November 19, 1832) was an American inventor who made wool and cotton carding pickers. Biography Pliny Earle I was born in 1762 in Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of Sarah and Robert Earle. He was a descendant of Ralph Earle, who petitioned Charles I of England, in 1638, for a charter to form themselves into Rhode Island. In 1785, he teamed with Edmund Snow in the manufacture of carding machines for cotton and wool. Among the many obstacles encountered by Samuel Slater in the introduction into the United States of the manufacture of cotton by machinery was the difficulty of procuring card clothing for his machines. After unsuccessful applications to several other persons, he went, in 1790, to Earle, who, although it was a new and untried work, agreed to make the cards. He succeeded, but to achieve that success he was obliged to prick the holes for the teeth with two needles fastened in the handle. This led him to the invention of the machi ...
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Pliny Earle (physician)
Pliny Earle II, MD (December 31, 1809 – May 17, 1892) was an American physician, psychiatrist, and poet. He was the son of the inventor Pliny Earle of the Earle family. Biography Pliny Earle was born in Leicester, Massachusetts on December 31, 1809. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1837, then studied in the hospitals of Paris, and visited institutions for the insane in European countries. In 1840 he became resident physician of the asylum for the insane (now known as Friends Hospital) at Frankford, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), where he remained two years. From April 1844 till April 1849, he was physician to Bloomingdale asylum, in New York. He immediately afterward visited insane hospitals in Europe. In 1853 he was appointed visiting physician to the New York City lunatic asylum, and in the same year delivered a course of lectures on mental disorders at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York. In 1863 he became profes ...
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