![]() ![]() However, a bit of looking revealed that a copy of the original patent does indeed exist, and I’ll include scans below, although the quality is sometimes less than ideal. XeUNejw21pĪlthough there has been some work to reconstruct them from extant sources, Adam is correct that the Fulton patents are generally presumed lost. See more #patent history at #10MillionPatents. Today, the search continues for these X patents. ![]() An effort was made at the time to rebuild the files of the Patent Office from 1836 and before, and that reconstruction included a numbering scheme that led these to be called the “X Patents” to distinguish them from patents issued after the fire.Īre you familiar with the "X patents"? The Patent Office caught fire in 1836, and destroyed many patent documents and models. It turns out that the patents are less lost than has commonly been assumed.Īs Adam mentioned, in 1836 a fire at the Patent Office destroyed essentially all the patent records. Perhaps nothing gets my attention more than saying that something is “lost,” so I had to look into it. On this date in #innovation history: Robert Fulton gets a second #patent in 1811 for his #invention of first commercially practical steamboat (unfortunately, his patent was lost in the fire that consumed the US Patent Office in 1836) #PatentsMatter #IndustrialRevolution /Q6fs79kQRl That changed a bit ago when Adam Mossoff tweeted this out about how the patents Robert Fulton took out in his famous steamboat were lost, and I couldn’t just leave it be. I hadn’t thought about it much, but his patent in his steamboat is one of the key documents in the history of American invention and technology. There is some controversy over his debts to previous inventors, but Fulton was the one able to develop a steamboat which was commercially successful, and which led to the rise of steamboat transit. Robert Fulton is generally remembered as the inventor of the steamboat.
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