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Washing-Machine.

Description: Patent for simple, inexpensive, and fast-acting a washing-machine for clothes and dishes. It does not take much work to use. It has two bodies that are secured together.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Brooks, Richard P.

Flower-Pot.

Description: Patent for a flower-pot that doesn't damage the roots of the plant while transplanting the plant. The pot has a removable bottom and sides made from sheet metal with clasps.
Date: October 29, 1895
Creator: Simpson, McDuff

Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the wheels, the axle provided with the fingers, and the spout attached to the under side of the frame, of the hopper having a slot in its bottom decreasing in width from its forward to its rear end, plates, adjustably secured to the bottom of the hopper, the vertical shaft journaled in the hopper, and the horizontal arms on the said shaft" (lines 92-100).
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Lowry, Talman Porter

Multiple Submarine Destroyer

Description: Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an objec… more
Date: October 1, 1917
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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