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- GLC#
- GLC07328
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 16 August 1808
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- [Patent for John Templeman's improvement in the chain bridge]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 5 p. : Height: 35 cm, Width: 29.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Signed by Jefferson as President. Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State and Caesar Augustus Rodney as Attorney General. Templeman's written description of his improvement is signed by Thomas Corcoran and John Oto as witnesses. The final page, signed by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, contains a written description of several diagrams of Templeman's invention. Sealed and bound with faded white ribbon.
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