This might tickle the fancies of some of you folks out there... just found this
tonight... the very FIRST recorded U.S. patent was railroad related; recorded
on July 13 of 1836. See URL below :
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat1.pdf
I found this on the following site :
http://www.pat2pdf.org
Probably many more railroad related patents in there as well.
John Degnan
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