Tyler Howe (/haʊ/; August 11, 1800 – June 9, 1880) was an American inventor and manufacturer who developed the first box-spring bed.

[4] Howe was educated in the local public schools, and spent his childhood and teen years assisting on the farm as well as at his father's gristmill and sawmill.

Beds consisted of little more than planks of wood nailed to a frame, and the slightest movement of the ship was transferred to the sleeper—making for restless sleep, and often inducing seasickness.

[5] With his second-eldest son, Otis, he formed a company, Tyler Howe & Co., that same year to manufacture and market the box-spring.

[8] Tyler Howe married Marcia Ann Prouty (also of Spencer, Massachusetts) on March 31, 1822.