Chapter II — Patent Grants
United States Patent Office
The Cyanotype Era, 1870–1915
The Diagram Outlasts the Machine
US Patent Grants by Decade, 1870–1915
Fig. 1 — Cumulative Grants Filed, United States Patent Office
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372K
+195% vs. 1870
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