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By careful attention to correcting the design flaws in the casing and impeller, Sturtevant transformed the simple fan blower into a pressure blower that became a boon to industry Being the first to apply sound engineering principles to these early crude devices at this historical inflection point, Benjamin Sturtevant can accurately be called the father of the American fan industry, having built the first commercially successful blower in 1864.