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William Kelly (inventor) - Wikipedia  William Kelly (August 21, 1811  February 11, 1888), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was an American inventor. ... A similar process was discovered independently by Henry Bessemer and patented in 1855. .... In 1871, the U.S. Patent Office granted Kelly a renewal of his patent for 7 years while rejecting applications for...
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William Kelly - American Society of Mechanical Engineers  William Kelly (1811-1888), a 19th-century American inventor, is one of them. ... he became convinced that air blown through molten iron not only would remove ... his method a success (which Kelly had not), Kelly objected to Bessemer's patent ... PA, and by 1862 managed to find enough financial aid to enable him to build a...
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William Kelly | American inventor | Britannica.com  American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which ... he became convinced that air blown through molten iron not only would remove ... When Kelly heard of Bessemer's patents, he filed a priority claim and in 1857 ... enough financial aid to enable him to build a steel plant in Wyandotte, Mich.
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A History of the United States Steel Industry - Rodney Ohebsion  At the time when William Kelly began to make iron, he was thirty-six years olda .... The patent office was convinced and granted him United States Patent No. ... brother William as a child in financial matters, and refused to give him his patent. ... Bessemer, by his own efforts, did not get any better  steel  in 1855 than Kelly...
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Project Gutenberg's The Beginnings of Cheap Steel, by Philip W ...  Bessemer, who began his experiments in the making of iron and steel in 1854 ... who negotiated the purchase of the American rights to Bessemer's process, also ... state of the patent laws, would have failed to give him an adequate reward if he .... Office, Decision of Commissioner of Patents, dated April 13, 1857, in Kelly vs.
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John Adams - AP U.S. History Topic Outlines - Study Notes  XYZ Affair. The signing of Jay's Treaty, which settled violations of the Treaty of Paris ... When John Adams took the presidential oath in 1797, he inherited several ... negotiations could begin, the Americans were to pay a $250,000 bribe and a ... Pinckney rejected the terms and told the French agents "no, no, not a sixpence.
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Presidential Patent | Teachinghistory.org  Early presidents signed the certificates that the Patent Office issued, and collectors ... But Abraham Lincoln was the only president to receive a patent himself. ... Patent #6469 for "A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals" on May 22, 1849. ... There was no problem with the boat on the 1828 trip, when he and another man,...
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March 14, 1794: Get Your Cotton Pickin' Hands Off My Gin, or The ...  Mar 14, 2016 ... On March 14, 1794, American inventor Eli Whitney patented his ... Unfortunately for Whitney, the cotton gin did not make him rich as he continuously had to fight for the ... used the practice in manufacturing muskets for the US government. ... Either way, many other arms makers and other industries took the...
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Critical Reading Questions - Citrus County School District  All of the following are probably part of the collection of the. Computer ..... b. it is not difficult to get a patent for an idea you didn't invent. c. ..... to Lincoln's draft proclamation in lines 13-16 is used to illustrate a. ...... a family servant to make a map showing all the cities, villages, and ..... In England, builder William Willett (1857-.
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Abraham Lincoln, Inventor, 1849 | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of ...  On March 10, 1849, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for a device for buoying vessels ... Abraham Lincoln the honor of being the only US president to hold a patent. ... His invention, adjustable buoyant air chambers, would be attached to the ... combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for...
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Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone - The Race To The Patent Office  Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and ... On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S. Patent Office for a ... Bell used Gray's water transmitter design only after Bell's patent was granted and...
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The Pay Phone's Journey From Patent to Urban Relic | History ...  Sep 18, 2014 ... This could be a great inconvenience, as one William Gray would ... Patent 408,709 for a "coin-controlled apparatus for telephones," issued August 13, 1889. Gray's first prototype device involved a box that covered the mouth of ... A hundred years later, there were more than 2 million pay phones installed in...
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Printed Words Revolution  18 Courtesy of the Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-3565-1-106. ... for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to .... order to raise money, the British government passed the ... that Virginians did not have to obey the Stamp Actor .... The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in.
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Celebrating Presidents Who Advocated for the U.S. Patent System ...  Feb 18, 2013 ... While these leaders are known for a great many things, it is perfectly correct to notice that both ... On July 31, 1790, President Washington signed the first ever U.S. patent, granting rights to Samuel Hopkins on a process of making potash, ... Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, who was considered the first...
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Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia  Abraham Lincoln's patent is a patented invention to lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. It is the only United States patent ever registered to a President of the United ... Lincoln was at times a patent attorney and was familiar with the patent application ... He eventually came up with an idea for inflatable flotation.
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A History of the United States Steel Industry - Rodney Ohebsion  He sent his steel, or refined iron, or whatever it was, to Cincinnati, and no flaws were .... of his process that the United States had become the supreme steel-making ... received ten million dollars, world-wide fame, and knighthood; while William Kelly, ... His first invention, a method of stamping public documents, wasso he...
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How Barbed Wire Changedthe West - cloudfront.net  retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. ... In the late 1860s and early 1870s, some farmers made fences ... Kelly was the first inventor ... Joseph Glidden went to work on his idea in the kitchen ... can legally make or sell the product. Glidden called his invention The Winner. ... But this kind wasn't as popular.
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Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin | National Archives  Sep 23, 2016 ... Eli Whitney Patents His Cotton Gin. In hopes of making ... In 1808 and again in 1812 he humbly petitioned Congress for a renewal of his patent.
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The Yazoo Land Fraud  a massive problem for the new government  Mar 8, 2016 ... In 1795, President Washington discountenanced the sale of western lands to ... at that time among the Americans who had settled on the Mississippi River, on ... In spite of these objections, the Yazoo Land Company made a concerted ... The commission was concerned about the tranquility of those who...
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Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin | National Archives  Sep 23, 2016 ... Reluctantly, he left his native Massachusetts to assume the position of private tutor on a plantation in Georgia. ... invent a machine that would profoundly alter the course of American history. ... In 1808 and again in 1812 he humbly petitioned Congress for a renewal of his patent. ... Cotton Gin Patent Petition
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Who Invented Television? - The Farnsworth Chronicles - Farnovision  I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the ... As compelling as the story of Philo T. Farnsworth may be, the historical record with ... and he was the first to successfully demonstrate the principle, in his lab in San ... Farnsworth's patent, #1,773,980-with the critical Claim 15 regarding the...