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Tue, 05.07.1878

A Black Man Receives the First of Two Patents for a Fire Escape Ladder

*On this date in 1878, J. R. Winters received a patent for the Fire Escape Ladder.  The Patent # 203,517. 

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Global Black Inventor.com

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