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Edward Henry Knight (1 June 1824,London - 22 January 1883,Bellefontaine, Ohio) was aUnited States mechanical expert.
He was educated at the Friends' school in England. He studied surgery, engraving, mechanics, and civil engineering, and emigrated to the United States in 1845. He settled inCincinnati, where he became apatent lawyer for several years, and then worked at agricultural pursuits.
In 1863, he accepted a position in theUnited States Patent Office inWashington, D.C., to work on the preparation of the annual reports. He also acting as surgeon under theUnited States Christian Commission. The meagre reports that were then issued at governmental expense for gratuitous distribution by the Patent Office were replaced by him in 1871 by theOfficial Gazette of the United States Patent-Office, which was issued as a profitable weekly publication. He also organized the classification of inventions.
He was a member of the international juries at the World's Fairs in Philadelphia and Atlanta, was United States commissioner to the World's Fair in Paris in 1878, and was made a chevalier of theLegion of Honor by the French government in recognition for his services at the last-named fair. He edited theReports of the Paris Exposition, to which he contributed chapters on “Agricultural Implements” and “Clocks and Watches.” Besides many official reports, he wrote theAmerican Mechanical Dictionary (3 vol., 1876), theNew Mechanical Dictionary (Boston, 1884), and “A Study of the Savage Weapons at the Centennial Exhibition” (in theSmithsonian Institution'sAnnual Report for 1879, p. 213, Washington, 1880). He compiledA Library of Poetry and Song (New York, 1870; revised ed., 1876).
He received the degree ofLL.D. in 1876 fromIowa Wesleyan College. His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest on record, that ofCuvier weighing 64½ ounces.
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