York. His grave is marked by a small red granite shaft about a hundred feet from Howe's massive bust monument. Legacy Hunt was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006 for the safety pin invention. Many of Hunt's invention ideas are in actual use today and are basically the same device as when he patented them more than a hundred years ago. Some of those others besides the safety pin and sewing machine are a device which regulates the amount of liquid that comes from a bottle with each tilt, a bottle stopper, springy attachment for adjustments to belts and suspenders, and a nail making machine. See also Daniel Davis Jr. References Sources External links You Tube video on Walter Hunt's safety pin patent history Walter Hunt - The Man Who Invented Sewing Machine 1796 births 1859 deaths 19th-century American inventors Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery People from Martinsburg, New York