US Patent: 194,317
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| Improvement in tape-measures
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Patentee:
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| Charles D. Ward (exact or similar names) - Jersey City, NJ |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 22, 1877 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 21, 1877 |
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Description: |
| The innovation is a tape for measuring road cuts or other excavations: the tape is divided according to the vertical depth of the excavation, which allows the laying out of "slope-cutting" without requiring calculation. |
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