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On this date, in 1891, John Standard from Newark, NJ, received a patent for a refrigerator.
Specifications of the patent are as follows: This invention relates to improvements in refrigerators, and it consists of specific novel arrangements and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and finally led embodied in the clauses of the claim. PDF version U.S. Patent 455,891 (130K).
Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1
