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List of Shaker inventions
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This article contains a list of inventions by the Shakers, officially known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance. Founded in the 18th century, the Shakers, a celibate sect who lived a communal lifestyle, were known for their many innovative creations in varied fields including agriculture, furniture, housework, and medicine.
Architecture
- Adjustable ventilating door transoms
- Round barn
- Sash-balance counterweight
- Shaker stairs
Food and agriculture
- Apple parer and corer
- Automatic seed planter
- Condensed milk
- Fertilizer spreader
- Pea sheller
- Rotary harrow
- Shaker Lemon Pie
- Threshing machine
Furniture
Medicine and healthcare
- Corbett's electrostatic machine
- Syrup of Sarsaparilla
Tools and appliances
- Circular saw
- Peg-boards (often called "clothes-pins")
- Deacon Daniel Baird's machinery for making pails, wash boards, and shingles
- Cut nails
- Flat broom
- Lumber-drying kiln
- No-kill mousetrap
- Metal pen
- Revolving oven
- Small paper packets for seeds
- Shaker broom vise
- Shaker spinning wheel
- Water-powered cooling fan
- Wheel-driven washing machine
- Wood-burning stove