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Katharine E. Holmes

Cambridgeport, Massachusetts inventor (1871)

Cambridgeport, Massachusetts · Fresh as of · Archival demonstration · Maintained by Name of Record

Summary

Katharine E. Holmes of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts was granted US Patent 119,766, “Improvement in Railway-Car Safety Apparatus,” on October 10, 1871 — passenger-protection guards for railway cars. The 1888 Library of Congress list of women patentees carries the matching entry: name, town, invention, date, and number. Beyond the patent record, her life dates and biography are not documented.

Focus areas: Patents · Railway safety · Women inventors

At a glance

Field
Patents · Railway safety
Location
Cambridgeport, Massachusetts

References · in priority order

  1. US Patent 119,766 (1871)patents.google.com/patent/US119766A/en
  2. 1888 LOC list of women patenteesarchive.org/stream/womeninventorsto12unit/women…
  3. Namesake: Katharine Holmes, the American Olympic fencer (Wikipedia)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Holmes

Sources

  • Of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts; granted US Patent 119,766, 'Improvement in Railway-Car Safety Apparatus,' Oct 10, 1871 — passenger-protection guards for railway carsGoogle Patents
  • The 1888 LOC list of women patentees carries the matching entry (name, town, invention, date, number)Internet Archive

Disambiguation

This record is about the 19th-century Cambridgeport inventor. Not to be confused with The contemporary American Olympic fencer of the same name.