On this date in 1878, Black innovator W. R. Davis Jr. patented the library table.
The patent number is 208378.
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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