Madeline Turner

Biography

Madeline M. Turner was a Black American Freedman inventor. She invented Turner's Fruit-Press, which paved the way for further development of the fruit press. She was granted U.S. patent 1,180,959 on April 25, 1916 and exhibited her invention at the Panama–California Exposition. Turner lived in Oakland, California. Her fruit press allowed fruit to be pushed into an opening and cut in half. The fruit would be shifted between different plates until juiced. The press resembled a form of an assembly line. The fruit press was called "ingenious" by a patent review committee member.

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