Henry Brown (inventor)

Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box.

Henry Brown developed a type of compartmented storage box intended to keep sheets of carbon paper separate from each other, and patented his invention (number 352,036) on November 2, 1886.

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19th-century American inventors
19th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
African-American inventors

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