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Wacky Patent of the Month

 

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-ESCAPES
November 2012 Wacky Patent

 

U.S. Patent Number:

221,855

Patented: Nov. 18, 1879

to

B.B. OPPENHEIMER

 

Colitz Catchphrase:

“The construction of tall buildings a century to more ago spawned new technologies
including the Otis elevator and the Oppenheimer fire escape."

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ABSTRACT

This invention relates to an improved fire-escape or safety device, by which a person may safely jump out of the window of a burning building from any height, and land, with out injury and without the least damage, on the ground.

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