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Born in Putney, Windham, Vermont, USA on 16 October, 1779 to Noah Matthew Cushing and Abigail Lockling. Noah Cushing married Bathsheba Sanderson and had 3 children. He passed away on 27 Dec 1850 in Trois Rivieres, St Maurice, Quebec, Canada. He filed the first patent in Canadian history for a “washing and fulling machine” to clean and strengthen cloth.
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06/08/1824-First Canadian patent filed for a "washing and fulling machine" by Noah Cushing of Quebec
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Noah Cushing1779, Oct 161820
 
18291850, Dec 27

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