1850

United States Congress (31st, 1st session : 1849)

Book

Title: Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1849

Published by the Office of Printers to the Senate. Includes an introduction by Thomas Ewbank, Commissioner of Patents. Contains sections on financial and statistical aspects of the patent office, inventions and claims, examiners' and machinists' reports, the origin and progress of invention, the motors, proposed applications of the patent fund, historical notices of inventors and patentees, and the propulsion of steamers. Contains reference to and a description of Abraham Lincoln's patent for an improved method of lifting vessels over shoals (pages 96, 242) (See also GLC01304).

GLC08567

June 17, 1811

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Landon Carter

Monroe, Secretary of State, replies to a letter and carriage model he recently received from Carter. Informs Carter that he delivered these items to the patent office immediately. Monroe had become Secretary of State just two months earlier.

GLC00124

December 1860 - March 1861

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Header Record

Title: Paul J. Semmes archive regarding buying arms and military equipment [decimalized .01-.14]

14 copies of documents and letters, most in the hand of Paul J. Semmes about his efforts as agent to buy arms for the state of Georgia before the war. Contracts with Parrot for guns and DuPont for gunpowder.

GLC00508

December 11, 1860

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph E. Brown

Writes to the Governor of Georgia enclosing a contract made with Charles Hugh of Pittsburgh for six eight inch Columbiads, 300 solid shot, and 1500 shells. Advises that the guns will be inspected by a member of the U.S. ordnance corps. Informs that the guns weight 900 pounds each, the shot 65 pounds, and the shells, 50 pounds. Discusses the costs. States that these guns will be cast using the "Rodman patent." Remarks, "Such guns cannot be obtained at any other foundry in the U.S." Marked copy on docket. Addressed from the 5th Avenue Hotel, New York.

GLC00508.02

6 August 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Joseph Jackson Coombs as an examiner-in-chief of the United States Patent Office]

Countersigned by Walton J. Smith, acting Secretary of the Interior. Impression stamped with The Department of the Interior seal.

GLC00782.14

June 24, 1852

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: Invitation for the President of the National Agricultural Convention

McCormick, inventor of the reaping machine, invites the President of the National Agriculture Convention to attend a demonstration of the machine. He indicates that the convention is assembled in Washington, D.C. Includes an initialed postscript. Letter written at the National Hotel. "Having advertised an exhibition of my Reaper, as may be observed now more fully in the 'Intelligencer' of this morning, this is to say that, if you and as many members of the Convention as can find it convenient should think proper to witness the exhibition, as above, I should be very much obliged & honored…

GLC00974

February 24, 1794

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to John Nazro

Has not considered Nazro's letter because "by law the mode of obtaining patents has been altered." Encloses the circumstances of the new law, which passed on 21 February. When he applies under the new law he will obtain his patent.

GLC02437.06050

24 July 1879

Smith, M.S., fl. 1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants her sister appointed to the patent office.

GLC09400.451

December 11, 1875

Knight, Octavius, fl. 1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George May Powell

He was unable to attend to completion of the May patent and pay the government fee as previously determined. He will now renew it as soon as possible.

GLC00687.129

June 1, 1865

Williams, A. F., fl. 1864-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. W. Sullivan

Because George May Powell did not write with their proposition, he agrees to use efficient skill and energy to start with a plan listing people and their interest in the patent. Powell will raise necessary funds to set things in motion, and will consequently receive 20% of all sales of limbs.

GLC00687.232

19 April 1862

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph document signed

Title: [contract]

He grants Alexander Whillden a share in Powell's Cannon Rifle.

GLC00687.201

1859-1864

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Patents filed through 1859-1864 with patent numbers]

On the back is a description of a patent filed 1861/2/19 for a motion device for an artificial leg and ankle.

GLC00687.200

December 20, 1866

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James L. Dayton

Powell seeks to procure a joint stock company to manufacture articles invented by Mr. A.M. Olds. Dayton responds on the back, agreeing to see about bringing the patents into use.

GLC00687.202

10 November 1882

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph document signed

Title: to John A. Wiedersheim

He is billing GMP for a letter patent, including government fee, drawings and specifications, and prosecution. Partially printed.

GLC00687.204

1864-1905

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph manuscript

Title: Powell's Patent Multiscope

He proposes a substitute for the expensive calcium light for viewing images, with an object that uses either sunlight or lamp light using a graphoscope, inserting a stereoscopic lens. Different lenses allow for different uses, including microscope, telescope, etc.

GLC00687.205

January 26, 1865

Rhodes, Rufus, fl. 1865

Pamphlet

Title: House of Representatives. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, January 26, 1865.

GLC06745.210

January 1862

Pamphlet

Title: Resolution of Congress with Reports of the Commissioner of Patents, Rufus R. Rhodes

GLC06745.211

January 1864

Rhodes, Rufus R., fl. 1862

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Commssioner of Patents

GLC06745.212

26 June 1865

Kearney, S.L., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Eliakim P. Scammon

Wishes to remain in service. Father died serving under Genl. Taylor in Mexico; brother died serving under Genl. Worth. Served for seven years in the U.S. patent office after being recommended by various generals, including Winfield Scott. Docket remarks indicate that Kearney has been recommended for discharge; among other things, his moral character is evaluated as "bad."

GLC02414.386

1837-1883

United States. Patent and Trademark Office

Envelope

Title: to Alexander Catlin Twining

An envelope addressed to Alexander C. Twining in New Haven, Conneticut from the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. The envelope is unaccompanied by contents. 121.757 was written on the back of the envelope. Both bottom corners are torn as is the full length of the right seam. Washington Free January 22, is stamped on the front of the envelope.

GLC07242.03

February 13, 1873

Ferry, Orris S. (Orris Sanford), 1823-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Professor Alexander Catlin Twining

A letter written by Senator Orris Sandford Ferry to Professor Alexander Catlin Twining. Senator Ferry writes to Twining about proposed amendments to a bill that will be put before the House of Representatives.

GLC07242.04

10 November 1869

Main, Thomas, fl. 1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Professor Alexander Catlin Twining

A letter written by Thomas Main to Professor Alexander Catlin Twining. Main found a series of designs Twining had drawn for an ice machine and was notifying Twining that they were in his possession.

GLC07242.05

1837-1883

Twining, Alexander Catlin, 1801-1884

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Supplemental information

A manuscript of supplamental information regarding Alexander Catlin Twining's patent application for an ice machine. There is a large illustration on page 2.

GLC07242.06

26 November 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Jacob Bromwell's improvement of the wheat fan, or winnowing machine]

Signed by James Monroe as President and countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Features paper seal and green ribbon. On separate page, Bromwell's written description of his improvement is signed by William Thornton and William Elliot as witnesses.

GLC04823.01

1 December 1808

Dana, Samuel, 1767-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Massachusetts Congressman Samuel Dana introduces William Whittemore to Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Informs Varnum that Whittemore will be travelling to Washington, D.C. in order to preserve the patent for "the exclusive use of his machines."

GLC03845.07