Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-12 | Page 8 | Abraham Lincoln, President-Inventor

Abraham Lincoln President Inventor L. L 7 i 7 0 mm r 1 1 s J vt t w l ll IN h Y Ail rHOD of 1 I II III II KU we r t O fl HUI f y I The young woman is looking over Abe Lincoln's model for his invention B Among the millions of Americans who have gone to the patent office with inventions they J hoped would solve one or another of Americas America's Amer- Amer teas leas mechanical problems was Abraham Lin- Lin coin and coin and the patent office today has a trick 01 n t little model of his invention Lincoln had considerable experience on western western west- west ern em as a young man Boats were forever getting stuck on sandbars Lincoln thought of a stunt to fix things So So-on So on May 22 1849 when he was a rather obscure member of the congress just turned 40 he 40 he got a patent on a new and improved manner of com combining ining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or Bother other vessel for the purpose of enabling their drau draught ht of of ot water to be readily lessened to e enable ble them to Jo ao o I the c of L. of O I OD ot 7 4 t a T oe m Th That t joor pe petitioner ODer k X- X invented x new new- M hr 7 c which b hi be root nor DOl u ii lw L urB be belieu beta been l en heretofore used or known and ud ti that t b be bo boc beV c V r thit Letters Relent o of the ibe United Suter may be grimed granted to 0 there bere- for r lo to 1 X ond ind nd lo to y leg I the lie exclusive right of milling wing ling and mi or of Tending rending Ie lo to the Ibe privilege to ilia mike or lie ait the Ibe name lime j j Star of petition for a patent in Lincoln's o own writing pass over bars or through shallow snaIl shallow ow water without discharging their cargo cargoes s. s The gadget consisted of two bellows accordion-bellows chambers attached to each side of a vessel These folded up flat when the ship iship was in deep water when it hit the shallows the skipper skipper skipper skip skip- per could work a set of levers ropes and pulleys pulleys pulleys pul pul- leys which would expand the chambers and Lincoln figured give the vessel added lift