In the history of enterprise, Matthias W. Baldwin is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Matthias W. Baldwin as American inventor and machinery manufacturer.
Matthias W. Baldwin was born at Elizabeth Township in 1795. His recorded nationality is United States.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as entrepreneur, engineer and inventor.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: National Inventors Hall of Fame (2005).
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Matthias W. Baldwin died in 1866, aged 71. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- National Inventors Hall of Fame — 2005
