This scrapbook covers the period 1860-1868. It contains clippings of patent specifications and drawings from the annual reports of the patent commissioner. (Additional clippings for 1857-1859 can be found in Laboratory Scrapbook, Cat. 298, Notebook Series.) Most of the clippings relate to telegraph devices and to various uses of electricity. There are also a few miscellaneous patents on such subjects as typewriters, gas regulators, and abdominal supports. The book contains 320 numbered pages.

Blank pages not selected: 316-320, and all even-numbered pages.

Missing pages: 5-6, 9-10, 15-16, 21-22, 27-28, 33-34, 39-40, 45-46, 51-52, 57-58, 63-64, 69-70, 101-102, 111-112, 121-122, 133-134, 143-144, 155-156, 167-168, 179-180, 189-190, 201-202, 213-214, 225-226, 237-238, 249-250, 261-262, 273-274, 285-286.

Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.