Thomas Robins Jr. (1868 to 1957) was an American inventor and manufacturer who developed a conveyor belt for moving coal and ore. Born in West Point, New York, he attended Princeton University and in 1891 began work on a belt conveyor for Thomas Edison and the Edison Ore-Milling Company in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. His conveyor belt won the grand prize at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and first prizes at the Pan-American Exposition and the Saint Louis Exposition. On the strength of the invention he founded the Robins Conveying Belt Company and the Robins New Conveyor Company, which is now ThyssenKrupp Robins. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. He died in Stamford, Connecticut, at the age of 89.
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began work on a conveyor belt for carrying coal and ore for Thomas Edison
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His conveyor belt received the grand prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900
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