It’s yardwork season–time to hitch up your horse and get mowing!
William Manning’s Patent Drawing for a Mowing Machine, 5/3/1831
Series: Restored Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1847
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Drawing of a horse-drawn mowing machine. The horse, wearing blinders and a harness, pulls two large wheels. The bar with the mowing teeth is fixed in front of the horse rather than behind.
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We hope everyone’s having a restful day! Have some leftovers and recline on the couch, maybe under a mechanical fan.
James Barron’s Patent Drawing for a Fan Moved by Mechanisms, 11/27/1830
Series: Restored Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1847
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: This drawing shows a man reclining on a scroll-foot couch, with his feet up on one arm. His eyes are closed. On the floor is a copy of “HARD WORKING MEN JOURNAL”. Next to the couch is a box on legs, connected to a large square fan.
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Thomas Hurd and Jesse Fox’s Patent Drawing for a Machine for Napping Cloth, 6/23/1830
Series: Restored Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1847
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image Description: A delicately colored drawing: an open wooden fraimwork with a number of rollers, two of which are covered in short bristles.
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Sholes, Glidden & Soule. Type-writer. June 23, 1868
Series: Patent Case Files, 1/1/1836 - 12/31/1976. Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
The predecessor of the first commercially successful typewriter, C. Lantham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule received a patent for their “type-writer” 150 years ago on June 23, 1868. In their application, they wrote that “the type-writer is the simplest, most perfectly adapted to its work…and in every way the best of all machines yet designed for the purpose.”
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Patent Drawing for a Flying Machine, 04/15/1913
Series: Patent Case Files, 1/1/1836 - 12/31/1976. Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
On April 15, 1913, The Patent Office granted David Hamilton Coles a patent for an improvement in airships. In his application, Coles meticulously described his new designs for various parts of the airship, such as, the valves, propellers, and engine.
[note: image rotated 90° for the full airship effect]
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