Patent for a wagon brake, 1828 Aug. 29.

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Patent for a wagon brake, 1828 Aug. 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86133508

The patent document consists of a single-sided parchment form, signed by John Quincy Adams (president) and Henry Clay (secretary of state), followed by a four-page holograph description of the invention being patented. The patent awarded to Turner was for an "improvement in the self-regulating brake for wagons, carts, or carriages." The improvement would mount the body or bed of a four-wheeled carriage on rollers so that, in traveling downhill, gravity would cause the body to act automatically as a brake against the wheels.

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Turner, Robert, III

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