Famous People with Name Morey

Morey Amsterdam            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morey Amsterdam: was a veteran American television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. He is probably best known for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s.

Samuel Morey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Morey: was an American inventor, who invented an internal combustion engine and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.The most important aspect of this craft was the paddle wheel. It was an old idea – supposedly dating to antiquities– and previously tried with a steam engine. Jonathan Hulls of England used a rear-mounted paddle wheel in 1737 but an inefficient method of turning the steam engine’s reciprocating motion into the circular motion hobbled it. In 1789, Nathan Reed of Massachusetts experimented with a paddlewheel, and considered patenting it, but eventually patented a different method instead. The American John Fitch experimented with side-mounted paddlewheels, but in 1791 used and patented oars instead. Thus, Morey’s may have been the first successful use of a steam power paddlewheel, which was the best method of propulsion until the propeller, also invented by Fitch, was perfected.

Tom Morey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tom Morey: also known by the moniker "Y" is a musician, engineer, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfing equipment design. Morey was living in Laguna Beach, California, by 1944 and was