List of Shaker inventions

Round barn, Hancock Shaker Village

Shakers

Topics
Early chronology of Shakers Era of Manifestations Shaker communities Shaker families Shaker furniture Shaker inventions "Simple Gifts" Works based on "Simple Gifts" Anti-Shaker
Notable people
Founders Jane and James Wardley Ann Lee William Lee James Whittaker Joseph Meacham Lucy Wright Other members Shaker members
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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

Shaker tilting chair

Furniture

• Shaker pantry box
• Shaker tilting chair

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