{"id":970,"date":"2009-02-03T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/02\/03\/repost-random-fact-abe-lincoln-has-a-patent-inventive-abe-history-archaeology-smithsonian-magazine\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T01:23:14","slug":"repost-random-fact-abe-lincoln-has-a-patent-inventive-abe-history-archaeology-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/03\/repost-random-fact-abe-lincoln-has-a-patent-inventive-abe-history-archaeology-smithsonian-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"-rePost-Random Fact: Abe Lincoln Has A Patent-Inventive Abe &#124; History &#038; Archaeology &#124; Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin&#8217;s victim, even the colossal face carved into Mount Rushmore. One aspect of this multidimensional man that probably doesn&#8217;t occur to anyone other than avid readers of Lincoln biographies (and Smithsonian) is that of inventor. Yet before he became the 16th president of the United States, Lincoln, who had a long fascination with how things worked, invented a flotation system for lifting riverboats stuck on sandbars.<br \/>\nThough his invention was never manufactured, it serves to give Lincoln yet another honor: he remains the only U.S. president to have a patent in his name. According to Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Lincoln&#8217;s eminence and the historical rarity of his patent make the wooden model he submitted to the Patent Office &#8220;one of the half dozen or so most valuable things in our collection.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/object-oct06.html\">Inventive Abe | History &amp; Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin&#8217;s victim, even the colossal face carved into Mount Rushmore. One aspect of this multidimensional man that probably doesn&#8217;t occur to anyone other than avid readers of Lincoln biographies (and Smithsonian) is that of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/03\/repost-random-fact-abe-lincoln-has-a-patent-inventive-abe-history-archaeology-smithsonian-magazine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;-rePost-Random Fact: Abe Lincoln Has A Patent-Inventive Abe &#124; History &#038; Archaeology &#124; Smithsonian Magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}