Mary Walton
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title:
Mary Walton
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Mary Elizabeth Walton was a nineteenth-century American inventor who was awarded two patents for pollution-reducing devices. In 1881, Walton created a method for reducing the environmental hazards of the smoke emitted from locomotive, industrial and residential chimneys. Her system deflected the emissions being produced by factory smokestacks into water tanks, where the pollutants were retained and later flushed "into the sewer, or into other suitable channels for conducting them to a distant or
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American inventor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Walton
date created:
2006-02-28T20:14:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:32:34Z
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