The Civic Discourse Project. How Abraham Lincoln Invented American Democracy. Season 2024 Episode 3 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Steven B. Smith argues that the defining moment of ...

Abraham Lincoln Is the Only President Ever to Have a Patent ... Lincoln, who had a long fascination with how things worked, invented a flotation system for lifting riverboats stuck on sandbars.

Abraham Lincoln Is the Only President Ever to Have a Patent. In 1849, a future president patented an amazing addition to transportation technology. Owen Edwards. October 2006.