Document Retrieval

The drawing for U.S. Patent No. 223,898 looks more like a doodler’s handiwork than a major technological advance. The design for the electric lamp, patented by Thomas A. Edison in 1880, is one of a number of historical documents intended to illuminate the past for schoolchildren and others visiting the...

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