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- GLC#
- GLC01304
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- May 22, 1849
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Patent for Abraham Lincoln's improvement in buoying vessels over shoals]
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 28.8 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Lincoln
Patent granted to Lincoln for inventing "a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over bars ... " Includes a written description and diagram.
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