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Thomas Elkins - Combined dining, ironing table, and quilting frame

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Thomas Elkins - Combined dining, ironing table, and quilting frame

Thomas Elkins - Combined dining, ironing table, and quilting frame

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Thomas Elkins invented a combined dining, ironing table, and quilting frame and received patent 100,020 on 2/22/1870.

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