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December 8, 1896 · Invention, Mechanical Design, Patent Literacy & Everyday Technology

John T. White Patented a Practical, Cleanable Lemon Squeezer

Patent 572,849 reveals careful design in a household tool—and the challenge of recovering an inventor whose biography was not preserved equally well.

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