A drawing of a fruit press and its parts.

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Innovation

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Fruit, Inventor

Madeline M. Turner

California | 1916

Turner invented a fruit press to extract juice from citrus such as lemons and oranges. The user would cut the fruit in half before setting it between several plates, which would remove the juice. She was granted a patent in 1916.

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