ch inch represents a foot on afull sized steamboat. Lincoln toldhis audience. Some of the spectatorswere sheptical, but the model was ad-mitted to the patent office as havinggTeat mechanical value. On the model, bellows were placedin each side of the hull of the craft,just below the water line.… … Not many people, perhaps, are awarethat Abraham Lincoln had a mind formechanics and invention in addition tohis many other talents. But recordsof the United States Patent office in 1849, applied for and secured apatent on a device for lifting vesselsover shoals. The young man in theabove picture,…
