page_title: Isaac Dripps
section_title: Patents
hierarchical_section_title: Isaac Dripps / Patents
caption_attribution_description: English: Close-up of cowcatcher on the "John Bull" locomotive
context_page_description: Isaac Dripps was an American machinist and inventor. He worked on the locomotive John Bull and built seven locomotives. Dripps was a superintendent and partner of various railroad machinery shops. He has several patents to his name.
context_section_description: Dripps invented the first locomotive cowcatcher which the Camden and Amboy Railroad used in 1833. It was used on the John Bull railroad locomotive.
  US78074A- Railroad car stove for heat, Patent No. 78074, dated May 19, 1868
  US82810A – Improvement in railroad-oar, Patent No. 82810, dated October 6, 1868
  US98675A – Railroad car truck, Patent No. 98675, dated January 11, 1870
  US117753A – Improvement in railway journal-boxes, Patent No. 117753, dated August 8, 1871
  US156455A – Improvement in railway-car trucks,  Patent No. 156455, dated November 3, 1874
caption: Dripps cowcatcher on John Bull railroad locomotive
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