blueprint patent (copy)
On this date in 1898, Lyda D. Newman, a Black woman from New York City, acquired a patent for the hair brush.
Newman’s invention permitted easy cleaning by having a detachable unit that carried the brush and bristles. The patent number was 614,335.
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
