Scientific American. New series
Subtitle: December 1, 1860
Publisher: Munn & Company
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Career in flatboating; Patents
Other titles: The president elect's mode of buoying vessels, patented May 22, 1849.
Description: Includes the article "The president elect's mode of buoying vessels, patented May 22, 1849" with an illustration of the model and extracts from the patent application.
Notes: Complete issue of the weekly journal.

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 States. Lincoln conceived the idea of inventing a mechanism that would lift a boat over shoals and obstructions when on two different occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions. Documentation of this patent was discovered in 1997. -- from Wikipedia article "Abraham Lincoln's patent."
Table of contents: title: Improved tool for rounding felloes.; title: Sketch of Professor Faraday.; title: Lord Palmerston's advice to mechanics.; title: The president elect's mode of buoying vessels, patented May 22, 1849.; title: How gold and silver thimbles are made.; title: Randal's improved combination press.; title: Patent claims ... for the week ending November 20, 1860.; title: Improved roofing and machine for making roofing plates.