Fayette Oliver Farwell (December 1858[1] – 24 May 1935), co-creator of the Adams-Farwell automobile manufacturing company, was a prolific American inventor with at least thirteen patents credited to his name.
[2] Lesser known was Farwell's development of a timing device that allowed machine gun bullets to be fired through the whirling propellers of airplanes without striking the blades.
Near the time of World War I, Farwell was called to Washington, D.C. by the War Department to further refine his ideas.
Farwell left Dubuque in 1921 to demonstrate a merry-go-round he had patented.
He sold a phonograph invention to the Victor Talking Machine Company.