The U. S. Patent Office issued Patent No. 2,000,000 last week, but it was the 2,009,957th US. patent issued since Thomas Jefferson granted the very first one to a man whose name and invention record a fire erased from history. The Patent Office was not set up formally until 1836, when the present series began.
Recipient of last week's milestone was Joseph V. Ledwinka, 64, Vienna-born chief engineer of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia), makers of automobile and railroad equipment (see p. 49). The company sent him to Washington to...
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