拍品 2176
  • 2176

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS & HENRY CLAY. PATENT SIGNED FOR PRESERVING TIMBER IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CANAL LOCKS, 10 JULY 1826

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1,500 - 2,000 USD
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描述

  • Patent signed ("John Quincy Adams") as sixth President, and co-signed ("H Clay") as Secretary of State, and ("Wm Wirt") as Attorney General, for preserving timber used in the construction of wooden canal locks, to Simeon Guilford, 10 July 1826
1 page (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.; 375 x 272 mm) on partially printed vellum, accomplished in a secretarial hand, embossed paper seal of the United States with pink ribbon. [With] 1 page manuscript inventor's description on vellum; previously folded, with some discoloration, a few scattered pinholes. 

Condition

1 page (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.; 375 x 272 mm) on partially printed vellum, accomplished in a secretarial hand, embossed paper seal of the United States with pink ribbon. [With] 1 page manuscript inventor's description on vellum; previously folded, with some discoloration, a few scattered pinholes.
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拍品資料及來源

In 1793, the first canal in the United States was built in Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River. It is likely that the Erie Canal in New York, completed in 1825, was the inspiration for Guilford's making a patent on his method of preserving canal timber. The success of the Erie Canal—which connected Buffalo with Albany, and to open up the West for commerce and expansion—led to a great burst of canal building in the country. The first major canal built after Guilford's patent was the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, began in 1828 (with construction interrupted in 1837 by the business depression), with about 100 miles of westward waterway completed.