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Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent for a simple and durable spark arrester for locomotives that has a minimum number of parts and "which will remove arrested sparks to the fire box of the locomotive and will prevent live sparks being thrown out by the locomotive and thereby endanger property adjoining the railroad tracks" (lines 19-23).
Date: March 20, 1894
Creator: O'Donnell, John
System: The Portal to Texas History