{"id":4902,"date":"2026-05-22T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:28:49","slug":"abraham-lincoln-received-patent-in-1849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4902","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln Received Patent in 1849"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15811\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15811\" class=\"wp-image-15811 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lincoln-Invention-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lincoln&#8217;s Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Abraham Lincoln in 1849 received patent #6469 for \u201cA Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals.\u201d<\/strong> After working with boats that were stuck on sand bars, he invented the device that would inflate and move ships to water. However, the device was heavy enough that it caused problems. The model, whittled by Lincoln, is on display at the Smithsonian. Children can see the model and read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/abraham-lincoln-only-president-have-patent-131184751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Model<\/a>. They can view the actual patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US6469A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Patent<\/a>. Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln in 1849 received patent #6469 for \u201cA Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals.\u201d After working with boats that were stuck on sand bars, he invented the device that would inflate and move ships to water. However, the device was heavy enough that it caused problems. The model, whittled by Lincoln, is on display <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4902' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[5117,1241,5567,2149,2150],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5117","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-may-22","tag-patent-6469","tag-a-device-for-buoying-vessels-over-shoals","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\/4902","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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29500,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/29500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}