US Patent: D31,549
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| Design for a Lawn Sprinkler
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Patentee:
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| Elijah McCoy (exact or similar names) - Detroit, MI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
May 31, 1899 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 26, 1899 |
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Wikipedia biography of Elijah McCoy
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Description: |
| It was shaped like a turtle, with the water spraying from its mouth.
The inventor was born in Canada to fugitive slaves from Kentucky. He moved to Scotland where he was certified as a mechanical engineer, and then rejoined his family who in the meantime had moved to Michigan.
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