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
Carbon paper (originally carbonic paper) consists of sheets of paper that create one or more copies simultaneously with the creation of an original document when inscribed by a typewriter or ballpoint pen. The email term cc which means "carbon ...
separate from each other, and patented his invention (number 352,036) on November 2, 1886.
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19th-century American inventors
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