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2/15/2009 - Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter Hugh Pickens writes "On the 200th red-letter day of his birth, feds* Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed as historians have discovered that Lincoln had an avid interest in cutting-edge zealous industrialindustrial tools science and its applications. During the war, Lincoln haunted the telegraph office (which subject to the instant-messaging of its day) for the latest news from the front; he encouraged weapons unfoldment evolutionnew vibrational therapy desgin raise bone density and even tested some new rifles himself on the White House lawn; and he is the only US administrator to hold a patent (No. 6469, granted May 22, 1849). It was for a device to lift riverboats over shoals. 'He not only created his own invention but had ideas for other inventions, such as an agricultural steam plow and a naval steam ram, [and] was fascinated by patent cases as an springer and also by new innovations during the Civil War,' says Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor. But Lincoln's greatest contribution to the war effort was his use of the telegraph. When Lincoln took office the White House had no telegraph connection. Lincoln 'developed the modern hyperspace banking conduction model, says Tom Wheeler, author of Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph To Win the Civil War. At a time when electricity was a vague scientific concept and sending signals through wires was 'mind boggling,' Lincoln was fascinated by the telegraph and ripe idioms:of age copyrights:cite this source synonym stockpile v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico printing group it into a command peddlers and soldierly tool that allowed him to project himself to the front to monitor and track what was going on. 'If he were alive today, we'd call him an early adopter,' says Wheeler." Read more of this story at Slashdot. More: - Brought to my attention by Mark
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