PATENTLY UNUSUAL Now They Belong IbThe Ages, … Abe Lincolns patent model for a new riverboat. Imagine, if y°u will, a young lawyernamed Abe Lincoln sitting beforethe fire whittling a piece of pine. Withstore-bought dowels and tiny scraps ofwood, he fashions the body of a minia-ture riverboat. For Lincoln, and hun-dreds of 19th century…
