Abraham Lincoln is the only president to have been granted a patent. He received Patent 6469 in May of 1849 for a device to lift boats over shoals.
no- Lincoln was the only president to hold a patent.
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Abraham Lincoln is the only US president with a patent.
Abraham Lincoln is the only US President to hold a patent.
President Lincoln.
On July 31, 1790 Samuel Hopkins was issued the first patent for a process of making potash. Potash is an ingredient used in fertilizer. The patent was signed by President George Washington. Hopkins was born in Vermont, but was living in Philadelphia, PA when the patent was granted. * Added - The first patent issued in what is now the US - In 1643 the Great and General Court of Boston issued the first patent to Joseph Jenkes of Lynn, Massachusetts for an improved water wheel.
Lincoln was granted a patent for a device to lift boats over shoals.
Abraham Lincoln. Before he became president, he was interested in engineering. He wondered if there were a way to invent something that might keep ships from running aground, and he came up with an idea for inventing such a device. He received Patent 6469 on May 22, 1849. It was called "Buoying Vessels Over Shoals,"and although the actual invention never seems to have been built, he is the first (and only) president to hold such a patent.
his first job was employment was as a technical assistant at the Swiss patent office.
Thomas Edison received his first patent, U.S. Patent 90,646, on June 1, 1869. This patent was for the electric vote recorder.
Alfred Nobel had the first patent on dynamite. He invented it.
Samuel Winslow was awarded the first patent in 1641.