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Letter to J.B.Cahoon Regarding PatentEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.271Scope and Content
Letter from Thomas Eubunk, U.S. Patent Office to J.B. Cahoon about his patent application for a new type of Plank Road.
US Patent Office
March 20th 1830
Sir
You claims to letters patent for alleged improvements in plank roads have been examined and I regret to state found to present nothing new or patentable.
The form of plank road described by you; having sleepers with rails attached upon which the wheels may run, and a path made for the horses between the planks or wooden rails; was in use in England in the 17th century.
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you are referred to Hebert on Railways and Locomotion - London 1837. pp. 6&7 and to a Practical Treatise on Rail Roads by Nicholas Wood Philadelphia 1832, pp 36-37-38. In descriptions of this kind of road. For terms of appeal or withdrawal see the enclosed circular
Yours Respectfully,
Thomas Eubank
Mr. J.B. Cahoon
North Dover
Cuyahoga
OhioCollection
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