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I keep..

I keep wondering, so perhaps I will make it a quest to wander down to the library and ask them sometime soonish..

what the heck was patent #1 for?

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  1. brianamj Says:
    April 3rd, 2006 at 7:11 am

    http://www.me.utexas.edu/~lotario/paynter/hmp/The_First_Patent.html

    Samuel Hopkins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Pittsford, Vermont], received Patent No. 1 on July 31, 1790, for an improvement “in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.” The patent was signed by President George Washington, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Only two other patents were granted that year, one for a new candle-making process and the other the flour-milling machinery of Oliver Evans.

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