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The Inventor President

  • March 31, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to hold a patent, but his invention, a device to raise boats over shoals, was never actually manufactured. A scale model of his invention is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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