avetaken to exploit the invention arenot now known. But there is norecord of any vessels having beenequipped with the device. Five yearsafter the granting of the patent,the introduction into Congre.ss ofthe Kansas-Nebraska bill with itsprovision for the repeal of the Mis-souri Compromise impelled… … Abraham Lincoln Himself Did Much of the Work of Shaping This Model of His Invention forBuoying Vessels Over Shoals . . . Two of the Adjustable Buoyant Chambers He Proposed CanBe Seen Attached to the Hull—(Photograph horn Smithsonian Institution). Davenport Damoorat and Leader 2/12/49 Lincoln an…
