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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Emerson, Jason, 1975- Lincoln the inventor. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008022773 (OCoLC)229446307 |
Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jason Emerson |
ISBN: | 9781441623348 1441623345 9780809386710 0809386712 1280696893 9781280696893 0809328976 9780809328970 |
OCLC Number: | 459791593 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 111 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Abraham Lincoln's mechanical mind -- Lincoln's lecture on discoveries and inventions : the unknown draft -- Appendix 1 : patent no. 6.469, May 22, 1849, Buoying vessels over shoals, Abraham Lincoln, of Springfield, Illinois -- Appendix 2 : Lincoln's first and second lectures on discoveries and inventions. |
Responsibility: | Jason Emerson. |
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‘Lincoln the inventor’ by Jason Emerson
Review of ‘Lincoln the inventor’ by Jason Emerson
CITATION: Emerson, J. (2009). Lincoln the inventor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Reviewer: Dr William P. Palmer
Abraham Lincoln was the only United States President to have successfully...
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Review of ‘Lincoln the inventor’ by Jason Emerson
CITATION: Emerson, J. (2009). Lincoln the inventor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Reviewer: Dr William P. Palmer
Abraham Lincoln was the only United States President to have successfully filed a Patent. He was said to have a mechanical turn of mind.The book ‘Lincoln the inventor’ is a short one of just 111 pages, though without the appendices, references etc. the written text is reduced to only 53 pages. There are several very good black and white sketches, which illustrate Lincoln’s patented invention of a ‘device to buoy vessels over shoals’. The book concentrates on this invention, which has in general been ignored by other biographers, so we are given an insight into an aspect of Lincoln’s inventive and mechanical character.
Lincoln was believed to have written two lectures on the subject of invention that have been considered inferior to other materials that he produced. The two lectures are now generally considered to be the first and second parts of a single lecture which Lincoln tried to use as a fundraiser, though he had little success in this regard. The books author, Jason Emerson, still hopes that a full text of the lecture may be found one day, but readers of this book can see for themselves what is currently available of Lincoln’s thoughts on invention. A useful historical snippet!
BILL PALMER
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- Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865
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- United States