Contract for sale of patent rights to a petroleum apparatus
Contributors: Burnet, William H.
Language: eng
Subjects: Distillation apparatus; Petroleum industry and trade; Refining; Petroleum; Commerce
Description: Bound holograph contract for sale of the patent rights to an improved apparatus designed and patented by James Perkins and William H. Burnet for refining and distilling petroleum.  Sold to Daniel F. Tompkins primarily in exchange for shares in a company to be formed for employing the device.  Document, executed in Newark, N.J., on April 5, 1865, includes a diagram of the machine.
Notes: Open to research.

Transfer, Library of Congress History and Literature Cataloging Division, 2002.

Collection material in English.