Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-19 | Page 7 | First Chinese Patent

first ch nese patent The first patent ever granted by the chinese government was recently la sued to a citizen of for an electric incandescent lamp it Is said to be a decided improvement upon the foreign bulbs now in use in shanghai and elsewhere the inventor balls it the clear moonlight electric lamp ching took his invention to the baota or maor who became interested in it and forwarded a sample with a memorial to the viceroy asking that the inventor be protected from interfere int erfer ence and competition in its ture and sale