James Albert Bonsack (October 9, 1859, – June 1, 1924) was an American inventor who developed an early cigarette rolling machine in 1880, and patented...

Bonsack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: James Albert Bonsack (1859–1924), American inventor Klaus Bonsack (1941–2023), East German...

to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette...

wealthiest cities in the United States. In 1880, Lynchburg resident James Albert Bonsack invented the first cigarette-rolling machine. Shortly thereafter...

when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies,...

forces would meanwhile industrialize the Commonwealth. Virginian James Albert Bonsack invented the tobacco cigarette rolling machine in 1880 leading to...

roll cigarettes (which until then had been hand-rolled). In 1880, James Albert Bonsack of Virginia invented a cigarette rolling machine. Because it was...

the industrialization of tobacco production with the cigarette. James Albert Bonsack, a craftsman, in 1881 produced a machine to speed the production...

community's needs changed." The town is named for a former resident, James Albert Bonsack, who invented the first practical cigarette paper rolling machine...

cigars. The first cigarette rolling machine was introduced in 1880 by James Albert Bonsack, while the cigar-making machine first appeared in 1889. As demand...