US Patent: 130,305
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| Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines
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Patentee:
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| Elijah McCoy (exact or similar names) - Ypsilanti, MI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 06, 1872 |
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Wikipedia biography of Elijah McCoy
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Description: |
| 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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