Henry Brown (inventor)
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Henry Brown was an African American
inventor, credited with the invention of the first strongbox.
Prior to the invention, people often kept personal and valuable papers in simple wooden boxes in their homes or at local banks. These boxes provided no deterrent against burglars or bank staff reading them.
He developed a lockable, forged-metal container, divided into compartments, and patented his invention (number 352,036) on November 2, 1886.
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
inventor, credited with the invention of the first strongbox.
Prior to the invention, people often kept personal and valuable papers in simple wooden boxes in their homes or at local banks. These boxes provided no deterrent against burglars or bank staff reading them.
He developed a lockable, forged-metal container, divided into compartments, and patented his invention (number 352,036) on November 2, 1886.
External links
- US Patent 352,036, from Google PatentsGoogle PatentsGoogle Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office , which are taken from the original USPTO database . All 8 million patents have been put in the database. Optical character recognition has been...
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