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Tue, 05.26.1891

A Black Man Receives a Patent For a Furniture Caster

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*On this date in 1891, Charles Paterson received a patent for a furniture caster. The patent number was #452,940

Charles Patterson, a 19th-century carriage (the car) company entrepreneur, was the inventor. 

New Poem Each Day

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our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row and boll. fenced others’ gardens with bones of lovers. embarking from Africa in chains reluctant pilgrims stolen by Jehovah’s light planted... AMERICAN SONNET (10)  by Wanda Coleman
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