The Independent - London, January 9th, 2002
SOME OF the documents carry the name T A Edison, others refer to a Mr Alexander Graham Bell. Many include intricate and spidery drawings of inventions that have become household fixtures.
But thousands of these documents - yellowing copies of patents dating back to a golden age of invention - are being thrown away as the United States Patent and Trademark Office becomes transformed by another, more recent invention, the computer.
The office, home to nearly 6.5 million patents, says it no longer has the room to house the documents that make up two libraries, one public and one private. Instea...
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