United States Patent No. 827868 HJ Hughes Net Patent August 7 1906 gift_for_chef General William H

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United States Patent No. 827868 HJ Hughes Net Patent August 7 1906 gift_for_chef General William HUnited States Patent No. 827868 Hj Hughes Net Patent August 7 196 H. J. Hughes filed this net in the summer of 1906, when basketball was barely fifteen years old and peach baskets were only just giving way to open mesh the schematic captures a humble loop and cord at the precise moment the game learned the sound of a ball falling clean through. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark