In a message dated 12/14/2006 12:06:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
> For you research hounds out there, Google has just made all 7 million > issued U.S. patents keyword searchable back to 1790. Select a patent > from your search results and you can further search for terms within > that particular patent! Go to www.google.com/patents to use this new tool. > (I'm looking at a Graphophone patent from 1896 as I type this!) > ************** well, if anyone finds any that I missed (among over 2000 phono and record patents) - from 1877 - 1912 - I would be pleased to hear of them. I like to think I caught them all in that period. (PHP) Allen www.phonobooks.com

