The fire escape ladder was patented by Joseph Winters on May 7, 1878
Joseph Winters born in 1816 in near Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) to James Winters, an Black American brick maker who worked at the federal arsenal there, and a Shawnee Indian mother whose name is unknown. Winters was raised by his grandmother Betsy Cross in Waterford, Virginia. In 1830, at the age of 14, […]