About Joseph winters
[Wikidata] American abolitionist, inventor (1824–1916)... | [Wikipedia] Joseph Richard Winters was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number 214,224 for an improvement on the ladder. On May 16, 1882, he received U.S. Paten
