Samuel Laws, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Laws

American academic administrator

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1824

Place of Birth: Ohio County, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1921

Profession: inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Samuel Laws

  • Samuel Spahr Laws (March 23, 1824 – January 9, 1921) was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded only 9 years before his graduation in 1839.

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