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{{Short description|Type of casual restaurant}}
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[[File:NYC diner Brooklyn.jpg|thumb|Counter service at Terry's Coffee Shop, a small diner in [[Brooklyn]]]]
[[File:Summit diner 1024x658.jpg|thumb|The [[Summit Diner]] in [[Summit, New Jersey|Summit]], New Jersey, is a prototypical [[railroad car|Northeast US railcar-style]] diner, built by the O'Mahony Company in 1938.]]
[[File:Collin's Diner (1942), Route 7, Canaan, Connecticut LCCN2017703366.tif|thumb|Diner on [[U.S. Route 7|US Route 7]], [[Canaan, Connecticut]], 1976]]
[[File:Classic American Diner.jpg|thumb|Classic American Diner in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]<ref>[https://www.americandiner.fi/ravintola/ Restaurants – American Diner] (in Finnish)</ref>]]
[[File:Diner by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Ruby's Diner]] in [[Colorado Springs]]]]
{{American cuisine}}

A '''diner''' is a type of [[restaurant]] found across the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], as well as parts of Western Europe and Australia. Diners offer a wide range of cuisine, mostly [[American cuisine]], a casual atmosphere, and, characteristically, a combination of booths served by a [[waiting staff|waitstaff]] and a long sit-down counter with direct service, in the smallest simply by a cook. Many diners have extended hours, and some along highways and areas with significant [[shift work]] stay open for 24 hours.<ref>{{cite news|last=Russell|first=Joan|title=The History of the American Diner|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/food/the-history-of-the-american-diner|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Paste Magazine|date=18 October 2016}}</ref>

Considered quintessentially American,<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-09-05|title=The History of the American Diner|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/food/the-history-of-the-american-diner/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=pastemagazine.com|language=en}}</ref> many diners share an archetypal exterior form. Some of the earliest were converted rail [[dining car]]s, retaining their streamlined structure and interior fittings. From the 1920s to the 1940s, diners, by then commonly known as "lunch cars", were usually [[Prefabrication|prefabricated]] in factories, like modern [[mobile home]]s, and delivered on site with only the utilities needing to be connected. As a result, many early diners were typically small and narrow to fit onto a rail car or truck. This small footprint also allowed them to be fitted into tiny and relatively inexpensive lots that otherwise were unable to support a larger enterprise. Diners were historically small businesses operated by the owner, with some presence of restaurant chains evolving over time.

Diners typically serve staples of American cuisine such as [[hamburger]]s, [[hot dog]]s, [[club sandwich]]es, [[french fries]], [[onion ring]]s, and other simple, quickly cooked, and inexpensive fare, such as [[meatloaf]] or [[steak]]. Much of the food is [[Grilling|grilled]], as early diners were based around a gas-fueled [[flattop grill]]. Coffee is a diner staple. Diners often serve [[milkshake]]s and desserts such as pies, cake or ice cream. [[Comfort food]] cuisine draws heavily from, and is deeply rooted in, traditional diner fare. Along with [[greasy spoon]] menu items, many diners will serve regional cuisine as well, such as [[clam chowder]] in [[New England]] and [[taco]]s in [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-09-05|title=The History of the American Diner|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/food/the-history-of-the-american-diner/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=pastemagazine.com|language=en}}</ref>

Classic American diners often have an exterior layer of [[stainless steel]] siding—a feature unique to diner architecture. In some cases, diners share nostalgic, retro-style features also found in some restored [[drive-in]]s and old movie theatres.

==History==
[[File:Rosebud Diner.jpg|thumb|[[The Rosebud (diner)|The Rosebud]], a restored 1941 [[Worcester Lunch Car Company|Worcester Lunch Car]] No. 773 in [[Somerville, Massachusetts]]]]

A crude precursor of the diner was created in 1872 by Walter Scott, who sold food out of a horse-pulled wagon to employees of the ''[[Providence Journal]]'', in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. Scott's diner can be considered the first diner with [[Walk-up window|walk-up]] service, as it had windows on each side of the wagon.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} Commercial production of such "lunch wagons" began in [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]], Massachusetts, in 1887, by Thomas Buckley. Buckley was successful and became known for his "White House Cafe" wagons. Charles Palmer received the first [[patent]] (1893) for the diner, which he billed as a "Night-Lunch Wagon". He built his "fancy night cafes" and "night lunch wagons" in the Worcester area until 1901.

===Prefabricated diners===
As the number of seats increased, wagons gave way to pre-fabricated buildings made by many of the same manufacturers which had made the wagons. Like the lunch wagon, a stationary diner allowed one to set up a food service business quickly using pre-assembled constructs and equipment.

The [[Transfer Station (Hudson County)|Transfer Station]] neighborhood of [[Union City, New Jersey]] was the site, in 1912, of the first lunch wagon built by Jerry and Daniel O'Mahoney and John Hanf, which was bought for $800 and operated by restaurant entrepreneur Michael Griffin, who chose the location for its copious foot traffic. The wagon helped spark New Jersey's golden age of diner manufacturing, which in turn made the state the diner capital of the world. In the decades that followed, nearly all major US diner manufacturers, including Jerry O'Mahoney Inc., started in New Jersey.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gabriele|first=Michael C.|title=Jersey Gems|magazine=[[New Jersey Monthly]]|date=May 2018|page=43}}</ref> Jerry O'Mahony (1890–1969), who hailed from [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], is credited by some to have made the first such "diner".<ref>p.16 Westergaard, Barbara ''A Guide to New Jersey'' Rutgers University Press</ref> The O'Mahony Diner Company of [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]], produced 2,000 diners from 1917 to 1952.  Only approximately twenty<ref>{{cite web|last=Di Ionno|first=Mark|date=2015-03-29|title=A classic Jersey diner comes to an end {{!}} Di Ionno |url=https://www.nj.com/news/2015/03/a_classic_jersey_diner_comes_to_an_end_di_ionno.html|access-date=2022-06-21|website=NJ.com|language=en}}</ref> remain throughout the United States and abroad. Others more credibly credit Philip H. Duprey and Grenville Stoddard, who established the Worcester Lunch Car and Carriage Manufacturing Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1906, when O'Mahony was still just 16.

Until the [[Great Depression]], most diner manufacturers and their customers were located in the Northeast. Diner manufacturing suffered with other industries during the Depression, though not as much as many industries, and the diner offered a less expensive way of getting into the restaurant business as well as less expensive food than more formal establishments. After [[World War II]], as the economy returned to civilian production and the suburbs boomed, diners were an attractive [[small business]] opportunity. During this period, diners spread beyond their original urban and small town market to highway strips in the suburbs, even reaching the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]], with manufacturers such as Valentine. After the [[Interstate Highway System]] was implemented in the US in the 1960s, diners saw a boom in business as mobile travelers would stop for a meal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.curbed.com/2017/5/30/15716116/restaurants-diners-prefab-historic-preservation|title=Diners, the original prefab success story|website=curbed.com|date=May 30, 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Bendix Diner.jpg|thumb|left|The Bendix Diner in [[Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey]]]]

In many areas, diners were superseded in the 1970s by fast food restaurants, but in parts of [[New Jersey]], New York, the [[New England]] states, [[Delaware]], and [[Pennsylvania]], the independently owned diner remains relatively common. Since the 1970s, most newly constructed diners lack the original narrow, stainless steel, streamlined appearance, and are usually much bigger buildings, though some are still made of several prefabricated modules, assembled on site, and manufactured by the old line diner builders. A wide variety of architectural styles were now used for these later diners, including [[Cape Cod (house)|Cape Cod]] and [[Colonial architecture|Colonial]] styles. The old-style single module diners featuring a long counter and a few small booths sometimes now grew additional dining rooms, lavish wallpaper, fountains, crystal chandeliers and Greek statuary. The definition of the term "diner" began to blur as older, prefabricated diners received more conventional frame additions, sometimes leaving the original structure nearly unrecognizable as it was surrounded by new construction or a renovated facade. Businesses that called themselves diners but which were built onsite and not prefabricated began to appear. These larger establishments were sometimes known as diner-restaurants.

====Manufacturers====
[[File:Salemdiner.jpg|thumb|The Salem Diner in [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]], Massachusetts]]
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* [[Bixler Manufacturing Company]]
* [[DeRaffele Manufacturing Co. Inc]] 
* [[Fodero Dining Car Company]]
* [[Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company]]
* [[Kullman Dining Car Company]]
* [[Mountain View Diners Company]]
* [[Silk City Diners]]
* [[Tierney Dining Cars]]
* [[Worcester Lunch Car Company]]
* [[Streamliner#Sterling Streamliner diners|Sterling Streamliner Diners]]
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Inspired by the streamlined trains, and especially the [[Burlington Zephyr]], Roland Stickney designed a diner in the shape of a streamlined train called the Sterling Streamliner in 1939.<ref>{{cite book|pages=76–78|last=Witzel|first=Michael Karl|title=The American Diner|year=2006|publisher=MBI Publishing|isbn=978-0-7603-0110-4}}</ref> Built by the [[John B. Judkins Company|J. B. Judkins]] coach company, which had built custom car bodies,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uglyinvestments.net/auto/details.aspx?id=61|title=1939 Sterling Diner|publisher=Antique Car Investments|access-date=August 7, 2010|archive-date=July 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710210009/http://www.uglyinvestments.net/auto/details.aspx?id=61|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Sterling and other diner production ceased in 1942 at the beginning of American involvement in World War II. Two Sterling Streamliners remain in operation: the [[Salem Diner]] at its original location in [[Salem, Massachusetts]] and the [[Modern Diner]] in [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island]].

==Architecture==
[[File:Wellsboro Diner interior.jpg|thumb|Interior of a 1938 Sterling manufactured diner, with curved ceiling, in [[Wellsboro, Pennsylvania]]]]

Like a [[mobile home]], the original style diner is narrow and elongated and allows roadway or railway transportation to the restaurant's site. In the traditional diner floorplan, a service counter dominates the interior, with a preparation area against the back wall and floor-mounted stools for the customers in front. Larger models may have a row of booths against the front wall and at the ends. The decor varied over time. Diners of the 1920s–1940s feature [[Art Deco]] or [[Streamline Moderne]] elements or copy the appearance of rail dining cars (though very few are, in fact, refurbished rail cars). They featured porcelain enamel exteriors, some with the name written on the front, others with bands of enamel, others in flutes. Many had a "barrel vault" roofline. Tile floors were common. Diners of the 1950s tended to use stainless steel panels, porcelain enamel, glass blocks, [[terrazzo]] floors, [[Formica (plastic)|Formica]], and [[neon sign]] trim. Diners built in the 2000s generally have a different type of architecture; they are laid out more like restaurants, retaining some aspects of traditional diner architecture (stainless steel and Art Deco elements, usually) while discarding others (the small size, and emphasis on the counter).{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

==Cuisine==
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[[File:NYC-Diner-ToGo-Cheeseburger-Deluxe.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|A bacon cheeseburger from a New York City diner in a to-go container, with a pickle slice, onion rings, coleslaw and french fries]]
[[File:Milkshakes at Mels Diner.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Many diners serve a metal cup alongside a milkshake, containing what cannot fit in the glass.]]

Many diners serve casual inexpensive food, such as hamburgers, french fries, club sandwiches, and other simple fare, with menus resembling those from [[greasy spoon]]-style restaurants. Much of the food is grilled, as early diners were based around a grill. There is often an emphasis on [[breakfast]] foods such as [[Eggs as food|eggs]] (including [[omelets]]), [[waffle]]s, [[pancake]]s, and [[french toast]]. Some diners serve these "[[breakfast foods]]" throughout the business day and others that focus on breakfast may close in the early afternoon. These are most commonly known as [[pancake house]]s. [[Coffee]] is ubiquitous at diners. Many diners do not serve alcoholic drinks, although some may serve beer and inexpensive wine, while others—particularly in New Jersey and on Long Island{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}—carry a full drink menu, including [[mixed drink]]s. Many diners serve hand-blended milkshakes.

There is regional variation among diners with traditional food. In the US, [[Michigan]] and the Ohio Valley at "[[Coney Island (restaurant)|Coney Island]]–style" restaurants, [[Coney Island hot dog|coney dogs]] are served, as are certain types of [[Greek cuisine]] like [[gyros]] influenced by Greek diner owners. In [[Indiana]] and [[Iowa]], [[pork tenderloin sandwich]]es are often on the menu. The Northeast has more of a focus on seafood{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}, with fried [[clams]] and fried [[shrimp]] commonly found in [[Maine]] and [[cheesesteak]] sandwiches and [[scrapple]] in [[Pennsylvania]]. Diners in the [[Southwestern United States|Southwestern US]] may serve [[tamale]]s. In the [[Southern United States|Southern US]], typical breakfast dishes include [[grits]], [[biscuits and gravy]], and [[soul food]] such as [[fried chicken]] and [[Collard (plant)|collard greens]]. In New Jersey, the "[[Taylor Provisions|Taylor Ham]], Egg, and Cheese Sandwich" is a feature of many diners. Many diners have transparent display cases in or behind the counter for the desserts. It is common with new diners to have the desserts displayed in rotating pie cases. Typical desserts include a variety of pies and [[cheesecake]].


macaroni & cheese is occasionally found at diners

===Immigrant influences===
Several international ethnic influences have been introduced into the diner industry in the US, because of generations of immigration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nrn.com/franchising/many-immigrants-restaurants-are-american-dream|work=Nation's Restaurant News|title=For many immigrants, restaurants are the American dream|last=Maze|first=Jonathan|date=March 29, 2017|access-date=December 17, 2020|quote=Overall, immigrants own 29 percent of all restaurants and hotels, more than twice the 14-percent rate for all businesses, according to U.S. census data.}}</ref> Many diners in the United States—especially in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]]—are owned or operated by [[Immigration to the United States|first-]] and [[Second-generation immigrants in the United States|second-generation]] Americans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thekitchn.com/why-so-many-classic-all-night-diners-are-greek-243252|work=The Kitchn|title=Why Are Diners Traditionally Greek? It's an Immigration Story, Naturally|last=Maze|first=Jonathan|date=April 17, 2017|access-date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> [[Greek Americans]], as well as [[Polish Americans|Polish]], [[Ukrainian Americans|Ukrainian]], Eastern European [[American Jews|Jews]], Italian Americans, [[Mexican Americans|Mexicans]] and [[Cuban Americans|Cubans]], have notable presences depending on the area. These influences can be seen in certain frequent additions to diner menus, such as Greek [[moussaka]], Slavic [[blintz]]es, and Jewish [[matzah ball]] soup, deli-style sandwiches (e.g., corned beef, pastrami, Reubens), and bagels and lox.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wbur.org/artery/2019/03/11/immigrant-owned-restaurants-incentives|work=WBUR|title=Let's Stop Putting Immigrant-Owned Restaurants Into A Box|last=Li|first=Irene|date=March 11, 2019|access-date=December 17, 2020}}</ref>

==Cultural significance==
[[File:Nighthawks by Edward Hopper 1942.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Edward Hopper]]'s iconic ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'' (1942) captured the ambiance of an urban diner at night]]

Diners attract a wide spectrum of the local populations, and are generally small businesses. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, they have been seen as [[American culture|quintessentially American]], reflecting the perceived cultural diversity and egalitarian nature of the country at large. Throughout much of the 20th century, diners, mostly in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]], were often owned and operated by [[Greek-American]] immigrant families. The presence of Greek casual food, like [[Gyro (food)|gyros]] and [[souvlaki]], on several northeastern diners' menus, testifies to this cultural link.<ref>{{cite news|last=Berger|first=Joseph|title=Diners in Changing Hands; Greek Ownership on the Wane|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/16Rdinersnj.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 16, 2008|access-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kleiman|first=Dena|title=Greek Diners, Where Anything Is Possible|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/27/garden/greek-diners-where-anything-is-possible.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|date=February 27, 1991|access-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref>

Diners frequently stay open 24 hours a day, especially in cities, and were once the most widespread 24-hour public establishments in the US, making them an essential part of urban culture, alongside bars and nightclubs; these two segments of nighttime urban culture often find themselves intertwined, as many diners get a good deal of late-night business from persons departing drinking establishments. Many diners were also historically placed near factories which operated 24 hours a day, with [[Shift work|night shift]] workers providing a key part of the customer base. For this reason, diners sometimes served as symbols of loneliness and isolation. [[Edward Hopper]]'s iconic 1942 painting ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'' depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night. The diner in the painting is based on a real location in [[Greenwich Village]], but was chosen in part because diners were anonymous slices of Americana, meaning that the scene could have been taken from any city in the country-and also because a diner was a place to which isolated individuals, awake long after bedtime, would naturally be drawn. The spread of the diner meant that by 1942 it was possible for Hopper to cast this institution in a role for which, fifteen years earlier, he had used an [[Automat (painting)|Automat]] all-night restaurant. The diner as an institution in this painting is a vignette mimicked by a movie lead-in aired nightly on the [[Turner Classic Movies|Turner Classic Movie Channel]].

But as a rule, diners were always symbols of American optimism. [[Norman Rockwell]] made his 1958 painting, ''The Runaway'', generically American by placing his subjects, a young boy and a protective highway patrolman, at the counter of an anonymous diner.<ref>[http://www.artgalleryartist.com/norman-rockwell/art/the-runaway.jpg Norman Rockwell – ''The Runaway'']</ref> In television and cinema (e.g. ''[[The Blob]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' and ''[[Diner (1982 film)|Diner]]''), diners and [[soda fountain]]s have come to symbolize the period of prosperity and optimism in America in the 1950s. They are shown as the place where teenagers meet after school and as an essential part of a [[courtship|date]]. The television show ''[[Alice (American TV series)|Alice]]'' used a diner as the setting for the program, and one is often a regular feature in sitcoms such as [[Seinfeld]]. The diner's cultural influence continues today. Many non-prefab restaurants (including franchises like [[Denny's]]) have copied the look of 1950s diners for [[nostalgia|nostalgic]] appeal, while [[Waffle House]] uses an interior layout derived from the diner.

[[File:Jax At The Tracks, Truckee.jpg|thumb|The diner Jax at the Tracks in [[Truckee]], California, was featured in the food reality television series ''[[Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives]]'' in June 2010.]]

Manhattan was once known for its diners. The [[Moondance Diner]] was shipped to [[Wyoming]] to make room for development.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/08/16/2008-08-16_moondance_diner_gathering_dust_in_wyomin.html|location=New York|work=Daily News|title=Moondance diner gathering dust in Wyoming one year after move|last=Brown|first=Kristen V.|date=August 16, 2008}}</ref> Diners provide a nationwide, recognizable, fairly uniform place to eat and assemble, desirable traits mirrored by [[fast food]] chains. The types of food served are likely to be consistent, especially within a region (exceptions being districts with large immigrant populations, in which diners and [[café|coffee shop]]s will often cater their menus to those local cuisines), as are the prices charged. At the same time, diners have much more individuality than fast food chains; the structures, menus, and even owners and staff, while having a certain degree of similarity to each other, vary much more widely than the more rigidly standardized chain and franchise restaurants. The [[Poirier's Diner]] and [[Munson Diner]], both manufactured by the [[Kullman Dining Car Company]] of [[Lebanon, New Jersey]], are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

[[File:John's Diner by John Baeder.jpg|thumb|[[John Baeder]], 2007, ''John's Diner with John's Chevelle'']]

Diners have figured significantly in American films and television since the form developed. In ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', the episode titled "The Diner" shows the perils, pitfalls, and difficulty in operating a diner, to much comedic effect. Archetypal appearances include significant scenes in classic films such as ''[[Sullivan's Travels]]'' and [[The Killers (1946 film)|''The Killers'']].  The 1982 "rites of passage" film [[Diner (1982 film)|''Diner'']] was centered on an eatery shared by the protagonists.  ''[[Waitress (2007 film)|Waitress]]'' in 2007 was about a [[waiting staff|waitress]] in a diner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eater.com/2015/1/30/7934459/the-history-of-diner-waitress-uniforms|title=How Diner Waitress Uniforms Have Evolved From Scandalous Bloomers to Gingham Dresses|publisher=Eater|language=en|author=Jennifer Wright|date=January 30, 2015|access-date=April 8, 2016}}</ref> Television series include the [[Food Network]] show ''[[Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives]]''.  ''[[Pennsylvania Diners and Other Roadside Restaurants]]'', is a 1993 documentary.  Diners are the focus of [[Photorealism|photorealist]] painter [[John Baeder]] who spent about 40 years painting diners across the US.  In 1990, [[WMS Industries|Williams Electronics Games]] introduced a [[pinball machine]] entitled ''[[Diner (pinball)|Diner]]''.  The object of the game is to serve all customers to light-up Dine Time (the jackpot).

==See also==
{{Portal|Food|Companies}}

* [[List of diners]], a list of notable diners in the US
* [[Bistro]], a small, inexpensive restaurant in France.
* [[Diner lingo]],  American verbal slang used by staff in diners
* [[Lunch counter]], a small diner-like restaurant located within another retail establishment
* [[Greasy spoon]], any small, cheap eatery including diners
* [[Cha chaan teng]], a diner-like café in Hong Kong
* [[Dhaba]], a roadside diner in India
* [[Warung]], cheap eatery in Indonesia
* [[Cafe (British)]], a similar inexpensive restaurant in the United Kingdom

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Baeder, John, ''Diners''. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Abrams, 1995.
* Butko, Brian, and Kevin Patrick. ''Diners of Pennsylvania''. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1999.
* Garbin, Randy. ''Diners of New England''. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005.
* Gutman, Richard J. S. ''American Diner: Then and Now''. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
* Kaplan, Donald; Bellink, Alan, ''Classic Diners of the Northeast'', Faber and Faber, 1986
* Witzel, Michael Karl ''The American Diner''. MBI Publishing Company, 1998.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907144237/http://www.journalofantiques.com/Aug03/featureaug03.htm "Greasin' up the Griddle, and Rollin' into History" The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, August 2003], retrieved on December 29, 2007.
* [https://patents.google.com/patent/US497598 Charles Palmer's 1893 patent]

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