NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham ... Though his invention was never manufactured, it serves to give Lincoln yet another honor: he remains the only U.S. president to have a patent in his ...

Abraham Lincoln! He is the only US president to hold a patent. From Smithsonian ... Herndon, his law partner at the time he was working on his invention, wrote that Lincoln "evinced a decided ...

Legend has it that later, when he became president, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed taking his young son Tad over to the Patent Office to show off his invention. But before long, visitors to the building ...

In 2012, inventor James Jorasch, drawn by the Lincoln connection–particularly Abraham Lincoln’s unique status as the only US president with a patent — bought the property for $5.14 million.

At the opening of the Patent-office Fair last ... Loud calls being made then for the President, Mr. LINCOLN stepped forward and said that he eoneared before the audience to apologize for not ...

and at one time associated in patent suits with Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton, died on Monday in this city, aged seventy- six years. He was a man of wealth, owning, among other properties ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham ... Though his invention was never manufactured, it serves to give Lincoln yet another honor: he remains the only U.S. president to have a patent in his ...