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Historical Marker - S570C - William Austin Burt / William Austin Burt (Marker ID#:S570C) Front - Title/Description William Austin Burt Near this site lived William Austin Burt, inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. Born in Massachusetts in 1792, Burt settled in this area in 1824, after spending several years in Erie County, New York. There he had been a justice of the peace, a school inspector, and a postmaster. In Michigan he worked as a land surveyor and a millwright, building over eight mills. He was a member of the Michigan Territorial Legislature in 1826 27. He served as Mount Vernon’s first Significant Date: postmaster (1832 1856), a Macomb County Circuit Statehood Era (1815-1860) Court judge (1833 1853), a state legislator (1853) Registry Year: 1985 Erected Date: 1986 and a deputy U. S. surveyor (1833 1853). Between 1833 and 1857 he and his five sons won acclaim Marker Location for their accurate work on public land surveys. In Address: 4300 Main Park Drive, Stoney Creek 1857 Burt moved to Detroit, where he died in Metropark 1858. City: Washington Township Back - Title/Description State: MI ZipCode: William Austin Burt County: Macomb America’s first patented typewriter was Township: Shelby constructed by William Austin Burt in 1829 in a workshop located on this site. It was also here Lat: 42.71170400 / Long: -83.07168900 that Burt built the solar compass, patented in Web URL: 1836, which was the prototype for those used today. Burt’s compass became an indispensable instrument for surveying because it used the sun instead of the magnetic north as a fixed reference and was therefore unaffected by the magnetic fields of iron ore deposits. Burt also received a patent for an Equatorial Sextant. Among Burt’s other accomplishments were the establishment of the northern point of the Michigan principal meridian in 1840, the discovery of the Marquette iron ore range in 1844 and the establishment of the northern portion of the Michigan Wisconsin boundary in 1847. In 1852 he assisted in surveying .

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