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Having spent some time researching I found nothing about the Rev. Burrell Cannon in that time range of US Patents. Have you found anything or is this just (another) instance of false information?
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Not false information. The book contains details of his
six patents;
- 495,392 - Machine for Cleaning Seed Cotton - April 11, 1893
- 497,304 - Churn Dasher - May 18, 1893
- 695,276 - Marine Propeller - March 11, 1902
- 698,391 - Wind Wheel - April 22, 1902
- 1,105,484 - Photographic Apparatus - July 28, 1914
- 1,400,522 - Cotton Harvester - December 10, 1921
The Marine Propeller and Wind Wheel are designs which closely match the revolving vane arrangement featured in the Ezekiel Airship. There had been contemporary claims that the Ezekiel Airship was itself being patented, but thorough searching, done by Cannon descendants in the pre-Internet days, failed to turn up any evidence of this.
Paul