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Guest column: Stranded ship near Windsor in 1848 inspired Abe Lincoln invention

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Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1847 , and the following year he found the opportunity to combine a political campaign swing through New England states with travel and sightseeing with his wife and two small sons.

Lincoln observed efforts to free a stranded Canadian steamer stuck on Fighting Island , with barrels, boxes, and empty casks being forced under the ship to lift it off.

Lincoln wrote a description of how it worked and received Patent No. 6469 from U. S. Patent Office in May 1849 .

His idea was never commercially produced, but it made Lincoln the only U..

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