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Charles B. Brooks

1865–

United States

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Charles B. Brooks (1865–1908) was a Black American inventor. Born in Virginia in 1865, by the 1890s he was a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Besides inventing, Brooks was a porter for the Pullman Palace Car Company.

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