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Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith
The Most Extraordinary Day in the History of the American Republic
On August 22, 1787, the founders of our constitution were meeting to forge a new document. They stopped their meetings because almost all of the delegates walked down to the banks of the Delaware River. There was a self-educated inventor, almost tinkerer, if you will, named John Fitch who had the first working steamboat that the world had ever seen. A week later, they voted unanimously to add to the Constitution a clause that would give Congress the authority to issue patents under a patent law.
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