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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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See see rider, see what you have done. Law’d, Law’d, Law’d, made me love you, now your gal has come. You made me love you, now your... SEE SEE RIDER by Ma Rainey.
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