GK
INVENTIONS
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Abraham Lincoln
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Thomas Jefferson
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Detailed explanation-1: -(Gilder Lehrman Collection) On March 10, 1849, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for a device for “buoying vessels over shoals” with the US Patent Office. Patent No. 6, 469 was approved two months later, giving Abraham Lincoln the honor of being the only US president to hold a patent.
Detailed explanation-2: -As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Only one President of the United States ever patented an invention. That was Abraham Lincoln, whose bicentennial we celebrate on February 12, 2009.