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Tue, 11.13.1894

A Black Inventor patents a Casket Lowering Device for Funerals

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*On this date in 1894, Albert C. Richardson, a Black inventor, invented the casket-lowering device.  The invention's patent number is #529311.

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Global Black Inventor.com

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