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On Abraham Lincoln receiving a patent...
On Abraham Lincoln receiving a patent...
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May 27, 1865
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, May 27, 1865
* Patent by Abraham Lincoln
* Buoying vessels over shoals
Inside has an interesting article: "President Lincoln As An Inventor" which deals with his invention of a device: "...to make it an easy matter to transport vessels over shoals and snags and sawyers...". The article mentions also: "...little model which, in ages to come will be prized as at once one of the most curious & one of the most sacred relics in that vast museum of unique and priceless things. This is a plain & simple mode of a steamboat roughly fashioned in wood by the hand of Abraham Lincoln. It bears date in 1849; which the inventor was known simply as a successful lawyer & rising politician of Central Illinois..." with more.
A print of the devise is in the Dec. 1, 1860 issue of Scientific American, and the issuance of the patent is found in the June 2, 1849 issue.
It is doubtful many people today are aware of Lincoln's inventive nature.
Sixteen pages, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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