The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bean, Nehemiah S.

​BEAN, Nehemiah S., inventor, was born at Gilmanton, N.H., in 1818. He worked during his youth as a machinist, and in 1847 became connected with the Amoskeag company machine shop, in whose employ he remained until 1854, when he removed to Lawrence to take charge of the locomotive works of the Essex manufacturing company. In 1857-'58 he constructed the first steam fire-engine, and in 1859 he invented and built the "Amoskeag," the first of a class of steam fire-engines which were afterwards used in all parts of the world; for twenty years he superintended their manufacture in the Amoskeag works, about six hundred being made under his direction. He died at Manchester, N.H., July 20, 1896.

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