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    Francestown, N.H., pp. 317, 903–904{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Died; Roper – At Cambridge. 1st inst., Sylvester H. Roper, 72 yrs...
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    The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime...
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    Transport. In the United States, a four-wheel steam carriage was made by Sylvester H. Roper in 1863. The 1896 Armstrong horseless carriage is notable as an early...
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    constructed around the same time as the American Roper steam velocipede, built by Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who had been demonstrating...
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  • technological innovation that they invented or designed. Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor of the Roper steam velocipede, died of a heart attack or subsequent...
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    RMB-93 KBP Instrument Design Bureau 12 gauge  Russia 1993 Roper repeating shotgun Sylvester H. Roper 12 gauge 16 gauge  United States 1867 Ruger Gold Label...
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    Christopher Miner Spencer (category Articles with hCards)
    while at the Roper Repeating Arms Company in Amherst, Massachusetts, he worked with Charles E. Billings, and Sylvester H. Roper. After Roper's firearms company...
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    cylinders were coupled directly outside the cranks of the driving-axle. Sylvester H. Roper drove around Boston, Massachusetts on a steam car he invented in 1863...
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  • List of deaths by motorcycle crash (category Articles with hCards)
    Giora Tzahor, Krisztián Veréb, Emili Vicente, Sanchari Vijay 1896 Sylvester H. Roper Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crash preceded by or followed by heart failure...
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  • (1999) George Roeder (1999) Larry Roeseler (1999) Gene Romero (1998) Sylvester H. Roper (2002) Rip Rose (2000) Scott Russell (2005) Perry Sands (2004) Robert...
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    back as 1827. The first known patents for choke boring were granted Sylvester H. Roper, an American inventor and gunsmith. This was followed by a patent...
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  • gunsmiths. The first known patents for choke boring were granted to a Mr. Sylvester H. Roper, an American inventor and gunsmith, (U.S. patent 53,881, Improvement...
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    was followed by the American Roper steam velocipede of 1869, built by Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Roper demonstrated his machine at fairs...
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    (1815–1895), businessman Ellen Cheney Johnson (1829–1899), prison reformer Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor; inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame (2002);...
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    Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden...
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  • American, Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, developed a twin-cylinder steam velocipede, with a coal-fired boiler between the wheels. Roper's contribution...
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  • Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede created in France.[dubious – discuss] 1869 – Sylvester H. Roper of Massachusetts, USA creates a steam velocipede which he shows at...
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    control was on the Roper steam velocipede of 1867-69. Rather than a sleeve that rotated around the handlebar, Sylvester H. Roper's steam motorcycle's...
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    William Rochester Pape (category Articles with hCards)
    choke boring to win the Illinois State Championship in 1868, and Sylvester H. Roper who applied for a patent in 1866, six months before Pape. His company...
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  • things under the hands of a skillful driver. "Miscellaneous items, Mr Sylvester H Roper of Roxbury, Mass has invented a steam carriage…". New Haven Daily...
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    Pynchon (1590–1662), founder of Roxbury and Springfield, Massachusetts Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor Nathaniel Ruggles (1761–1819), U.S. representative...
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    operable condition in the world (the oldest are functional replicas of Sylvester H. Roper's 1869 steam velocipede). This has inspired the Phoenix Museum of History...
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    (1898–1956), businessman and inventor of residential chain-link fence Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor, pioneering builder of early automobiles and...
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    Albert Hale Sylvester (May 25, 1871 – September 14, 1944) was a pioneer surveyor, explorer, and forest supervisor in the Cascade Range of the U.S. state...
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  • Cliffhanger (film) (category Films with screenplays by Sylvester Stallone)
    directed and co-produced by Renny Harlin and co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone alongside John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner. Based...
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  • Brie Larson, Rick Fox, Battle of the Web Stars – Kevin Lieber and Jake Roper August 10 Ryan Seacrest & Randy Jackson Anthony Anderson, Bebe Rexha, Battle...
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    John Rambo (category Sylvester Stallone)
    famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone. The portrayal of the character earned Stallone widespread acclaim...
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    Thomas More (category Articles with hCards)
    traitors. More's daughter Margaret Roper (née More) later rescued the severed head. It is believed to rest in the Roper Vault of St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury...
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  • The Velvet Rope is the sixth studio album by American singer Janet Jackson. It was released on October 7, 1997, through Virgin Records. Prior to its release...
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    Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. American Motorcyclist Association (2002), "Sylvester Roper; American inventor and transportation pioneer who built a steam-powered...
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