Improvement in Fire-Escapes. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
  • Added Title Fire-Escapes

Creator

  • Inventor: Staples, George S.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: George S. Staples, of Sherman, Texas. ; G. S. Staples

Contributor

  • Witness: Randolph, T. Z.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Darnell, A. L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Scarborough, J. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for illustration.

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1877-08-28
  • Acceptance Date: 1877-08-28
  • Submission Date: 1877-06-25

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
  • Physical Description: [1], [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Landscape and Nature - Natural Disasters - Fires
  • Keyword: fire equipment
  • Keyword: buildings
  • Keyword: escaping fires

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Grayson County - Sherman

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 194625
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth166692

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed June 25, 1877. Serial No. 194,625
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