Henry Brown

Biography

Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box. Little is known about his life, other than that he was living in Washington D.C. when he initially filed his patent. 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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