Location Biddeford, Maine, United States Regions East Coast, New England, Northeastern US Gender Male
Amos Whitney, (born Oct. 8, 1832, Biddeford, Maine, U.S.—died Aug. 5, 1928, Portland, Maine), U.S. manufacturer. He was apprenticed at age 13. In 1860, with Francis Pratt, he founded the firm Pratt & Whitney, originally to manufacture thread spoolers. It later diversified into the manufacture of innovative designs of guns, cannons, sewing
machines, and typesetting machines; instruments for measurement developed there proved of great value to science and industry. Today a separate company, formed from the tool works in 1925, produces aircraft engines and space propulsion systems as part of the United Technologies Corporation.
