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Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.
Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date:
April 5, 1898
Creator:
Hood, William B.
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Car-Wheel.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Clark, Fred
System:
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Street-Sprinkling Appratus.
Patent for an inexpensive street-sprinkling apparatus. It can be steam, electric, cable, or horse powered, and can sprinkle a wide or narrow street. "The invention consists in a vehicle preferably running upon a railway-track and provided with a water-tank and with independent sprinklers or final-distributors or sets of distributors, the one located at an end or the ends of the vehicle and discharging by gravity, and the other at the sides thereof, toward an end or the ends, and discharging under pressure or by force" (lines 24-33). Water is pressurized in the tank, and uses the force of gravity to distribute it.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Louis W.
System:
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Washing-Machine.
Patent for new and useful improvements in washing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Willis, Jessie T.
System:
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