Joshua Lionel Cowen
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Joshua Lionel Cowen (/ˈkoʊən/; August 25, 1877 – September 8, 1965) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Cowen attended two different colleges but never obtained a degree. He had a mechanical inclination and was interested in the principals of electricity. He worked a lot with batteries, transformers, and electrical motors which led to inventions and innovations. His first patented invention for a photographer's flash igniter for flash photography developed into a detonator for exploding mines for the United States Navy. That resulted in a $12,000 (equivalent to $390,864 in 2021) defense contract which gave him the money to go into the novelty business.
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
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1965-09-08
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Queens, New York, U.S.
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1877-08-25
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circa 1903
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co-founder of Lionel Corporation
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Hyman Nathan Cohen
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Rebecca Kantrowitz Cohen
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1904
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1946
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1949
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died
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Cecelia "Mimia" Liberman
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Lillian Appel Herman
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Joshua Lionel Cowen (/ˈkoʊən/; August 25, 1877 – September 8, 1965) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Cowen attended two different colleges but never obtained a degree. He had a mechanical inclination and was interested in the principals of electricity. He worked a lot with batteries, transformers, and electrical motors which led to inventions and innovations. His first patented invention for a photographer's flash igniter for flash photography developed into a detonator for exploding mines for the United States Navy. That resulted in a $12,000 (equivalent to $390,864 in 2021) defense contract which gave him the money to go into the novelty business. He was the co-founder of a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains called Lionel trains. When he first made the Lionel toy train it was intended to be used as an advertising gimmick to attract people to store windows to sell other products. By accident people were more interested in the self-running electric toy train than the products in the display window. That led Cowen into developing a niche market for a Christmas gift for boys, model railroading. His marketing abilities parlayed store window displays into a multi-million dollar electric toy train business.
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