Re: Accessing 19th cent. US patent records

Do you want the original files? Caveats? or just printed specifications? The printed specs can be found in many places, I would think. Try the public library (the NY Public has them, anyhow). The real stuff is in and around Washington, DC. If that's what you want--the original patent files, with correspondence and so on, and the Libers in which the application dates and sometimes assignments were entered--I can get you names and places early next week. Just give me a holler. We've used them extensively, and although the location of some things is still a bit of a mystery, much can be found.

Bob Rosenberg
Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
rarosenb[_at_]gandalf.rutgers.edu Received on Sun Mar 06 1994 - 05:14:47 GMT