Who is the only U.S. president ever to receive a patent?

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• OH, BLT you are totally wrong. He used someone else's hands, he didn't wanta dirty his own on the dam job. The depression was looming so there were lots of folks willing to give a hand, this is the origin of the phrase 'handy man.' It was a big job, he wore out a lot of hands, he hired the now handless doners to pedal his vacuums door-to-door, ( they had failed to read the dam contract, or to see the diff between giving and lending a hand) but as the depression worsened they couldn't make sales. They were reduced to asking for hand outs as they were out of hands. Brother can you spare a dime?
  Jefferson invented lots of stuff, the platform rocker, the dumb waiter ( who was always sleepin on the rocker) indoor-outdoor thermometer, and such; but he got no patents. There was no patent office yet, so they put him on the nickel. He wanted to be on the dime, but they were all out of dimes, having given them all away to handless Vacuum cleaner sellers in the depression.
  BTW Hoover Dam sucks.

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  by notmrjohn on February 12th, 2008

• lol - I was never any good in history, thanks for clearing that up :)

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  by MrBLT needs to be contained on February 12th, 2008

• No prob, BLT. I'm writin the History of the Huge Nighted Steaks of a Miracle. I'm up to the part where Rollin' Franklin Roosevelt, the prez who rarely stood for any nonsense, leads the retreat down San Juan Hill.

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  by notmrjohn on February 12th, 2008

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• You are correct again!

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  by Perryman on February 12th, 2008

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