About Henry Brown
Born 1801. Henry Brown was an American inventor.
Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box.
Henry Brown developed a type of compartmented storage box intended to keep sheets of carbon paper separate from each other, and patented his invention (number 352,036) on November 2, 1886.
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American inventor
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Henry Brown was born in 1801.
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Henry Brown was an inventor.
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