Henry Gabriel Ginaca
Appearance
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Ginacamachinepatent.jpg/220px-Ginacamachinepatent.jpg)
Henry Gabriel Ginaca (May 19, 1876 - 1918) was an American engineer who invented, at the direction of Hawaiian pineapple magnate James Dole in 1911, a machine that could peel and core pineapples in an automated fashion. Called the Ginaca machine, the invention exponentially[citation needed] increased pineapple production and revolutionized the fruit canning industry. He died in the Spanish flu epidemic.