US Patent: 3,021X
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| Propelling Boats
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Patentee:
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| Abraham Taylor (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Nov. 18, 1818 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
The original copy of this patent has become available for sale with the following text:
"To All to Whom these Letters Patent shall come: Whereas Abraham Taylor a resident two years & upwards in the United States, hath alleged that he has invented a new and useful improvement being a mode of propelling Boats &c, called the Columbian Principle which improvement he states has not been known or used before his application; hath made oath and that the same hath not to the best of his knowledge or belief been previously used or known in this or any foreign country, that he does verily believe that he is the true inventor or discoverer of the said improvement. These are therefore to grant, according to law, to the said Abraham Taylor his heirs, administrators or assigns for the term of fourteen years, from the eighteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the said improvement; a description whereof is given in the words of the said Abraham Taylor himself, in the schedule hereto annexed, and is made a part of these presents."
"The Columbian Principle consists in two series or combinations of wheels, one series for each side of the boat. The series are arranged along the edge of the boat in the direction of its length. In describing the series of wheels I shall speak of the series for one side of the boat only, as the series for the other side will be precisely the same." |
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