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- GLC#
- GLC07325
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 13 June 1848
- Author/Creator
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
- Title
- [Patent for Jordan L. Mott's improvement in the process of chilling castings]
- Pagination
- 5 p. : docket ; Height: 51.5 cm, Width: 39 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Signed by Buchanan as Secretary of State. Countersigned by Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents. Mott's written description of his improvement is signed by Edward Lewis and M. D. Van Doren as witnesses. Contains a one-page diagram of Mott's invention. Sealed and bound with faded white ribbon.
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