Winfield Scott Sims, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWinfield Scott Sims
American inventor
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1844
Date of Death: 07-Jan-1918
Profession: inventor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Winfield Scott Sims
- Winfield Scott Sims (April 6, 1844 – January 7, 1918) was an American inventor. Sims was born in New York City, son of Lindsay D.
- and Catherine B.
- Sims.
- Sims attended the public schools of Newark, New Jersey.
- He had just graduated from the high school when the American Civil War broke out.
- He enlisted in the 37th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers and served until 1864.
- Sims has specialized in the application of electric power to marine vehicles and in the invention of high power war weapons.
- He was the first to apply electricity to the propulsion of torpedoes.
- Among his inventions is a submarine boat with a cylindrical hull of copper having conical ends and with a screw propeller and rudder operated by electric power generated on shore or on ship board, by means of which the torpedo is propelled, guided and exploded.
- Among Sims’ earlier inventions were various devices in electromagnets and the construction of an electric motor, weighing 45 pounds for light work, with a battery of twenty half gallon Bensen cells that propelled an open boat sixteen feet long with six persons on it, at the rate of four miles an hour.
- His invention of the submarine torpedo boat was followed by the devising of a boat with a speed of 22 miles an hour to carry a 500 pound charge of dynamite.
- He invented also a wireless dirigible torpedo for the Japanese Government in 1907.
- The Sims-Dudley dynamite gun, also of his invention, was used by the Cuban insurgents, and, at the battle of Santiago by the "Rough Riders".
- Others of his designs are a dynamite gun for use with dirigible war ships and an aeroplane dynamite gun.Sims was president of the New York Ordnance Company.
- He died in Newark in 1918.
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