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The Borthwick Apparatus Patent for Frozen Confections captures a moment when household ingenuity was a national pastime

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

Hughes filed this net in the summer of 1906

General Scott's Victorious Entry Into the City of Mexico

Benjamin Franklin Born in Boston Jany 17th 1706 Died in Philadelphia April 17th 1790

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