{"id":3577,"date":"2026-03-26T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:00:34","slug":"joseph-francis-patented-lifeboat-in-1845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"Lifeboat Patented by Joseph Francis in 1845"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lifeboat patented by Joseph Francis of New York New York, in 1845. <\/strong>He invented a lifeboat made from corrugated sheet iron in 1845. He received Patent Number 3,974. His invention saved 200 of 201 lives at danger when the ship <em>Ayreshire <\/em>ran aground in 1850. Children could see his patent at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US3974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifeboat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeboat patented by Joseph Francis of New York New York, in 1845. He invented a lifeboat made from corrugated sheet iron in 1845. He received Patent Number 3,974. His invention saved 200 of 201 lives at danger when the ship Ayreshire ran aground in 1850. Children could see his patent at:\u00a0Lifeboat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4715,3562,3560,3561,5436],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4715","tag-ayreshire","tag-joseph-francis","tag-lifeboat","tag-march-26","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22129,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/22129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}