Alexander Melville Clark Patent
name: label: Creator
content: Dodge, W.C.
label: Creator
content: Clark, Alexander Melville
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
topic: label: Topic
content: Patents
label: Topic
content: Inventions -- 1870-1880
label: Topic
content: Inventors -- 1870-1880
label: Topic
content: Chemistry
label: Topic
content: Hydrogen
label: Topic
content: Distillation -- Hydrogen
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by W.C. Dodge in 1891 to the United States National Museum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dodge, W.C.
label: Creator
content: Clark, Alexander Melville
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content: Alexander Melville Clark Patent
abstract: label: Summary
content: A British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark for an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen.  There is a wax seal attached to the end of the patent.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alexander Melville Clark was an inventor, patent agent, and author.  Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries he applied for patents for improvements for thimbles, umbrellas and sunshades, typewriting machines, candle cases, machines for trimming and finishing boots and shoes, knitting machines, hot wire voltmeters, combination locks, and door fasteners.  In 1884, Clark wrote Analytical Summaries of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks' Act, 1883, and of the Patent Laws of All Foreign Countries and British Colonies.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1877
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: W. C. Dodge donated the patent in 1891 to the United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), predecessor to the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian.   Collection transferred to the Archives Center in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1017
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Deborah Khuanghlawn, intern, 2010; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, 2010.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection is the British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark by the English government in 1877 for inventing an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen.