In 1870, George A. Tinnerman, a tinner by trade, opened a hardware store on Lorain Avenue, just east of its intersection with Fulton Road. Among the products he sold at this store were cast iron stoves. George's dissatisfaction with these cumbersome stoves would inexorably lead to the creation of a new fastener called a "speed nut" that would revolutionize the the assembly of automobiles and aircraft in America. This sketch first appeared in the 1874 Cleveland Atlas.
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