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Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
Date: March 16, 1858
Creator: De Veuve, Henry
Description: Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.
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Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Date: April 27, 1858
Creator: Donovan, I. T.
Description: Patent for the improvement for planting cotton seeds using a toothed wheel and hopper, including illustration.
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Millstone-Dress.
Date: July 20, 1858
Creator: Loy, George W.
Description: Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.
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Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Date: August 24, 1858
Creator: Keiper, D. B.
Description: Patent for the improvement of the seed-box so the seeds are properly distributed into the soil while preventing the seed from clogging the machine, including illustration.
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Window-Fastener.
Date: August 31, 1858
Creator: Root, Irving
Description: Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
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Escapement for Timekeepers.
Date: October 12, 1858
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
Description: Patent for the improvement in the escapement of the watch for a "more regular and less liable to get out of order" through wear (lines 23-24), including illustration.
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Improvement in Compositions Used as Building Materials.
Date: October 12, 1858
Creator: Raymond, N. C.
Description: Patent for making a new kind of building and fencing materials by using farm waste and inorganic settable ingredients such as quick-lime, clay or soil. No illustration.
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Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Date: December 28, 1858
Creator: Marshall, Frank M.
Description: Patent for the improvement of seed planters using a gage-wheel "to regulate the depth of the furrow made by the plow" (lines 16-17), including illustration.
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Improved Water-Wheel.
Date: February 8, 1859
Creator: Littlepage, C. V.
Description: Patent for the improvement of the water-wheel using curved buckets over a spiral water passage to increase power and volume, including illustration.
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Pessary.
Date: February 22, 1859
Creator: Wells, Francis, F.
Description: Patent for a ring pessary used as a female birth control device, including illustration.
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