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Tue, 01.10.1888

A Railway Signal is Patented by a Black Man

On this date in 1888, A.B. Blackburn patented the railway signal. patent number # 376,362.

Reference:

USPO.gov

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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