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Appendix
1. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S.
Constitution.
2. Copy of the first U.S. patent issued and
signed by George Washington in 1790.
3. Copies of selected patents granted to
inventors who changed the world:
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Abraham Lincoln |
manner of bouying vessels |
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Alexander Graham Bell. |
telegraphy |
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Auguste Bartholdi |
statue [of liberty] |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
electric lamp |
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Lewis Howard Latimer |
electric lamp |
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Granville T. Woods |
electric railway |
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Orville and Wilbur Wright |
flying machine |
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Harry Houdini |
diver's suit |
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Garrett A. Morgan |
traffic signal |
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George Washington Carver |
paint and stain and process... |
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H. F. Bosenberg |
climbing or trailing rose |
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An Wang |
pulse transfer controlling devices |
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Phillip J. Stevens |
variable area nozzle |
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Ysidro M. Martinez |
knee implant prosthesis |
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Philip Leder |
transgenic non-human mammals |
4. More than a toy. selected toy
patents.
5. Rumor has it... that a patent office
official resigned because "everything that can be invented has been
invented."
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