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Joseph Winters (1816-1916) was an African-American inventor and abolitionist who is most famous for patenting the wagon-mounted fire escape. Though he is often credited for the original invention of the wagon-mounted fire escape, it was actually the invention of George Huttman and George Kornelio, Joseph Winters merely improved upon it. He was born in Virginia and later relocated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania where he patented the fire escape. While he was living in Chambersburg he was active in the Underground Railroad.

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