Original authority for U.S. patent, copyright and trademark law comes from the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln is the only President to hold a patent (although he earned it before his election), for a device to free riverboats that had run aground.
Abraham Lincoln was from Springfield IL, but first he was born in a humble log cabin in Hodgenville KY. When you visit there (it’s the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park), there’s a large mausoleum-like structure protecting the humble log cabin he was born in, but the park rangers will tell you that the log cabin is merely a replica. It’s not the real thing.
I’m on a cross-country roadtrip with my son and we were there just yesterday. Let me bore you with some family pics! 
Bullitt and Handsome Son of Bullitt
And in the Visitor Center, you gotta have Lincoln Logs, right?
The children’s construction toy, Lincoln Logs, were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the second son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The younger Wright came up with the idea for the toy in 1916 or 1917, while he and his father were working in Japan.
Cool trivia!
I’ve been to the Lincoln Birthplace only once. It was at the end of the day, and my friends and I had the honor of helping the Park Service ranger lower the national colors for the night.
(Playing off Kenobi) Stonemason Charles Pajeau and partner Robert Petit dreamed up the “Thousand Wonder Toy” in the early 1910s after watching children create endless abstract shapes with sticks, pencils, and old spools of thread. Adding holes on all sides of a round wooden wheel sized for sticks included in the set, they named their creation Tinkertoy.
Wheels with holes and abstract shapes were also used by the British engineer and toy designer Denys Fisher. His 1960s invention, Spirograph is a geometric drawing device that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
The Spirograph National Art Contest was held on March 1, 2022, and sponsored by Playmonster.com. Winners were chosen from three separate age groups: 4-7, 8-12, 13+. Their designs were exhibited at The Strong National Museum of Play, in New York City.
As had I. 
In play:
Col. Strong Vincent was a hero of Little Round Top during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, falling while leading his troops of the 83rd Penna. A high school is named for him in Erie, Penna.
Not in play:
Correction, The Strong is in Rochester, NY, 330 miles / 5+ hours from New York City
Carry on.
Let’s see if I can link those two together.
The Battle of Gettysburg is a cyclorama – a work of art which is a painting or other image displayed on the inside of a cylinder, in a 360-degree view. Also known as the Gettysburg Cyclorama, it was painted by French artist Paul Philippoteaux, and was completed in 1883.
Several versions of the cyclorama were subsequently created; one version, which was originally created for display in Boston, is currently on display at the Gettysburg National Military Park’s Museum and Visitor Center.
The Battle of Gettysburg saw a record number of casualties, which saw almost 8,000 soldiers killed and over 3,000 horses fatally wounded. The residents of Gettysburg, which numbered only 2400 at the time, were charged with burying the dead and burning the horse carcasses. Additionally, the residents were tasked with caring for the wounded, which numbered over 22,000.
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Only a single civilian was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg: Jennie Wade, a young woman killed by a stray bullet while kneading dough for bread in her family’s kitchen.
“Poppin’ Fresh,” also known as the “Pillsbury Doughboy,” is an advertising mascot for the Pillsbury Company. The character was developed by creatives at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in 1965; while the character is now depicted in ads using CGI, it was originally depicted using a stop-motion animation puppet, and the animation for the first ads with the character was done by veteran animator George Pal.
George Pal created a series of animated shorts he called, “Puppetoons.” They were made using replacement animation: using a series of different hand-carved wooden puppets (or puppet heads or limbs) for each frame in which the puppet moves or changes expression, rather than moving a single puppet, as is the case with most stop motion puppet animation.
George Pal was the premier producer and director of science fiction and fantasy in the 50s, able to make A pictures for top Studios. Works include tom thumb, The Time Macine, Destination Moon, The War of the Worlds, and The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao.
H.G. Wells was, in his 1895 novella of the same name, the first person to write about a time machine, although others had written about time travel by means of dreams, wishes, magic or supernatural methods, according to James Gleick in his 2016 study, Time Travel: A History.
The TYME (“Take Your Money Everywhere”) Network was one of the first inter-bank ATM networks, first established in Wisconsin in 1975. Through the 1980s, many Wisconsin residents used the term “TYME machine” interchangeably with the term “ATM.”
The first Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was installed outside a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London on June 27, 1967. Today, there are an estimated 3.2 ATMs installed throughout the world.