TY  - GEN
AU  - Perkins,James
AU  - Burnet,William H.
TI  - Contract for sale of patent rights to a petroleum apparatus,
KW  - Tompkins, Daniel F.
KW  - Distillation apparatus
KW  - Petroleum
KW  - Refining
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Newark (N.J.)
KW  - Commerce
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Bound holograph contract for sale of the patent rights to an improved apparatus designed and patented by James Perkins and William H. Burnet for refining and distilling petroleum.  Sold to Daniel F. Tompkins primarily in exchange for shares in a company to be formed for employing the device.  Document, executed in Newark, N.J., on April 5, 1865, includes a diagram of the machine
ER  -