Almanac: Abraham Lincoln's patent

SGT John " Mac " McConnell roger that, you want to talk about a game changer back then.....my goodness you got it. Awesome read, I would have never imagined this in a 1,000 years. Awesome read and share of Abraham Lincoln in 1849.

Lincoln was a smart man.

Yeah I'd read of it before, in the famous Raymond Massey film on Lincoln there's a depiction of a flatboat he supposedly rode in hitting a spillway dam near the town he settled in before moving to Springfield in IL , the town where he met Ann Rutledge whom he'd wanted to marry, before meeting Mary Todd , I think new Salem, as I recall, I'd read something somewhere about efforts to build and or test his patented device I just can't recall where at the moment. It's not that the Raymond Massey film depiction bears directly on the patent, certainly, just that I'd thought of the patent on rewatching the movie ,in the film a series of hogs escape that were on the flatboat, as the flatboat tipped over going over the spillway, an amusing scene depicted as being the one wherein he ostensibly met Anne rutledge initially, I can't recall now if her first name was Ann or Anne, lol. Hope was of interest many thanks.