A Black Inventor Patents a Library Table

Tue, 09.24.1878

A Black Inventor Patents a Library Table

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

Reference:
Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1

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