NF Patent: NF-7
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Improvement in manufacture of whale, seal and cod oils, with improved machinery for such manufacture
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Patentee:
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Charles G. Fox (exact or similar names) - St. John's, NL Canada |
Manufacturer: |
Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jul. 01, 1854 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
Chemist Charles Fox of Scarborough, England, created the process of refining animal oils using double boilers. He opened a factory in St. John's harbour in 1848 and he may have been living in St. John's at the time. He was granted eight of the first 35 Newfoundland patents |
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