A Black Man Receives A Patent For A Beer Tapper

Tue, 07.20.1909

A Black Man Receives A Patent For A Beer Tapper

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*On this date in 1909, Richard B. Spikes received a patent for a Beer Tapper. The Milwaukee Brewing Company purchased his invention. U.S. Patent #928813.

Reference:

USPO.gov

Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators
By James Michael Brodie
Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc.
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York
ISBN 0-688-11536-5

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