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the Dewey system was made by melvil Dewey in insperation of his late grandfather. he was a very clean man but did no know the was to sort his books. so he came up with a system to catorgarize his books. he then wanted to make it more precise so he came up with the decimal system so he could catorgarize them to small amounts.

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Dewey published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library in 1876. He had developed it while working in the library at Amherst College. It was published at Amherst. Lydenberg, H.M. Dewey, Melvil. Dictionary of American Biography. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Supplement I; pp.241-243.

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No, Melvil Dewey copyrighted the Dewey decimal system in 1876.

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It was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey, and has been through 22 major revisions. The latest being in 2003.

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The Dewey Decimal System was invented by Melvil Dewey in 1876 in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a classification system used to organize library materials by subject.

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