Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth
1810–95
American minister and apiarist. Principal of schools in Philadelphia and Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 1851, developed an innovative moveable-frame beehive that revolutionised bee-keeping. Author of Langstroth on the hive and the honey-bee (1853).
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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