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Corpse preservation patent, 1903. Printed patent drawings of a proposal for corpse preservation by Russian-US inventor Joseph Karwowski. The design was a 'Solid Glass Coffin' consisting of a transparent air-tight glass tank. The design could be for either the head or the whole body. This is patent number 748,284 from the US Patent Office, dated 29 December 1903. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/US NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)